This feature is available in WinCatalog Professional license. Details: Difference Between Personal and Professional Licenses

You can pass parameters as command line arguments to automate some basic tasks in WinCatalog 2026.

WinCatalog 2026 supports the following operations:

• Opening existing catalog file;

• Creating a new catalog file;

• Adding a file, a folder or a drive to the catalog;

• Updating previously added folder or drive;

• Navigation into a folder in the catalog file;

• Starting a new search.

Every command should begin with “-”, “/” or “:” (by your choice) without quotes. All commands and parameters are case insensitive, i.e. WinCatalog equally interprets the following commands:

-ExitWhenDone

-exitwhendone

Every command have full and short versions, both versions are equivalent, for example:

-ExitWhenDone

-ewd