Partitions can be resized on the original hdd, or with a temporary or intermediate vhd [MS, Vbox, &/or VMWare], to get rid of the excess space that most have on their system drive. Vhd partitions can be resized in Paragon's Virtualization Mgr., but like the extra step of using a temp/intermediate vhd, this is time consuming. I don't know that it can be made faster -- it may always take as long as it takes -- but by including the resize in the P2V job at least you wouldn't have 2 somewhat long operations with user interaction in between... IMHO that would make for a smoother job flow, not having to monitor step one to see if it completed.