Many Windows users are happy to have the ability to resize partitions with Microsoft’s built-in Shrink capability within Disk Management. With this built-in tool, users have the ability to dynamically resize partitions. Of course, like many things built by Microsoft into the OS, there are third-party options available that provide more robust capabilities than Disk Management. While I would rarely if ever recommend using Windows’ built-in defragmenter (ha!), I’ll concede that there are people using the built-in Disk Manager to resize partitions on their drives. With the tool, users can shrink a single partition with unused space, and then create a new partition in the resulting free space, as well as extend a current partition if there is available free space after it. Continue reading →