When we received a batch of Asus Laptops, we were a little dissapointed to find the drive partitioned in half.  We then thought, no problem, we can just use our favourite partitioning program, Partition Magic, to modify the partitions. One problem, Partition Magic isn’t compatible with Vista! It’s sad to see a great product stop being developed after it gets acquired by a big company (Symantec bought out PowerQuest years ago).  Luckily we found out that Windows Vista allows you to resize/modify partitions, and this is how you do it (remember, it’s always safe to have a backup before you start ‘playing’ with partitions):

1.    Click on the Start Menu (Windows icon in the bottom-left corner of your screen)

2.    Now Right-click on Computer and choose Manage (you will most likely get a UAC popup message, choose Continue)

3.    This will open Computer Management, select Disk Management from the left-hand side

4.    You should now see the partitions in your computer, right-click on the partition you want to modify and choose extend or shrink

If you are having issues using the built-in features in Windows Vista, you can try a 3rd party tool such as Paragon Partition Manager which is fully compatible with Windows Vista.

Windows Vista 64-bit and the standard SonicWALL GVC (Global VPN Client) do not get along! SonicWALL released a beta version of their client Q3 of 2008 but a lot of people who signed up (including myself) have not received a copy of the beta client. I was able to find the client via digging online and the beta client for Windows Vista 64-bit is valid as of January 10th, 2009. Download the client -here-

* Please keep in mind that this is a beta version and it may not be stable or could cause issues with Windows – it’s always best to use a testing environment first.