New releases, and an easy way to change Vista partition sizes
April 28th, 2008 by Paul RobertsRecent hotfixes from Microsoft seem to have caused problems with the process monitoring functionality in PTFB Pro. If you’re seeing unexpectedly high memory consumption from PTFB after a recent Windows Update, please update to the latest release, 3.5.1.1. This fixes the problem, and adds a much requested feature - the ability to mark an item so that it runs only once in a session, no matter how many times it is opened. We’ll also be releasing new updates for LogMeister and ColorCache soon.
On a different note, I’ve finally gotten round to customizing my laptop. It came with Vista pre-installed, and in their wisdom the manufacturer decided to split the disk into two partitions. I prefer to have a single big volume to work on, and I’d heard that Vista allows you to resize partitions non-destructively, so I eagerly fired up the disk management applet (Administrator Tools -> Computer Management). I ditched the unwanted partition, then right-clicked on the partition I wanted to resize. The popup menu had a very helpful looking “Extend Volume” command, but sadly, it didn’t live up to its promise. It wouldn’t let me resize the main partition because it held the OS.
As always, I dived onto Google and found various tutorials on resizing partitions using Linux tools. I didn’t like the sound of this because the procedure requires a repair run from the Vista CD to make Vista bootable again after the resize. Fortunately a little more searching led me to an article on the VistaRewired site, which uses Vista’s diskpart utility directly. Happily, this let me expand the main partition to use all available space, without any data loss whatsoever.
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