How to Resize Partition in Windows Vista?

Having more than one partition is a good idea especially in case of emergency. In case you have to format your hard disk, only you know how hard it is to look for back external hard disk to back up your data. For Vista user there is an integrated tool to resize your partition hard disk. In a situation where most of the Vista installed notebooks came with only one partition (as I seen) this might became handy.

1. Click Start and right click on Computer and click Manage.
2. A pop up window will appear. On the left window, select Disk Management under Storage
3. Select the partition you want to resize, then right click it and select Shrink Volume
4. Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB. However, the partition which Vista sits on must be at least 30GB to be safe.
5. After resizing is done, there will be another partition, which needs to be reformatted in order to use it. Right –click the unallocated partition and click New Simple Volume.
6. Follow through the setup wizard. You will be asked to assign the drive letter, format the partition, and specify the volume size. That’s all.

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How to Resize Partition in Windows Vista

If I'm not mistaken, a PC with pre-installed Windows Vista came with only one partition. My friend asked me once how to resize the partition in Windows Vista without reformatting. Just imagine hundreds of GB stored in one partition (I prefer to create 2 partitions - one for installation files and another for multimedia files). Besides that, having more than one partition can be helpful in case, you want to reformat - you can easily back up your data to another partition without troubling yourself to look for an external hard disk.

So, if you want to resize your partition, Windows Vista has an integrated tool to resize your hard disk. Let me show you how.

1. Click Start. Right click on Computer and click Manage
2. A pop up window will appear. On the left window, select Disk Management under Storage.
3. Select the partition you want to resize, then right click it and select Shrink Volume.
4. You will be asked to enter the amount of the resulting partition. Go ahead and enter whatever digits you prefer. However, the partition which Vista sits on must be at least 30GB to be safe.
5. After the resizing is done, there will be another partition, which needs to be formatted in order to use it. Right click the unallocated partition and click New Simple Volume.
6. Follow through the setup wizard. You will be asked to assign the drive letter, format the partition, and specify the volume size. You are did it .

Codecs for Vista

Since my laptop barely cannot support Windows Vista, I unable to fully explore Windows Vista to discover its pros and cons. In short I don’t know what the basic problem that are Vista users facing. I moved to write this article after my friend who bought a brand new Dell laptop with Windows Home Premium told his problem to me.

According to him, he can’t watch certain format movies which are of course if there is no correct media player or codec. Besides that, he said he also unable to watch VCD movies which are of course made me wondering what is the wrong then.

Vista Codec Package might help for those facing the problem as I mentioned above. Well what can I say about this codec? Read the Changelog to know the functionality of the codec. The least I can do.

Download Vista Codec Package

Pinball for Windows Vista

Does anyone realize there is no Pinball game on Windows Vista? Pinball the Windows default classic game, anyone? Why the Microsoft did not shipped the Pinball along with their new operating system? Don’t ask me I don’t know about that either but what I know is we still can play Pinball on Windows Vista.

Since the author of the software uploaded it on an online storage site, it’s not a good idea for me to directly put the download link. So, I linked to the site which the author posted about his/her work.

Windowsxlive [Now Available: Final Version of Pinball for Vista]