Increasing partition size for windows

can i increase the size of my windows partition with bootcamp?
i installed windows at first just so that i can use some of the program and files that runs on windows. And i thought since i was going to format that partition in the FAT way then i can access files on OS X. But after the installation of windows i realize that i'd have to go to OS X and drag that file into the windows partition and then restart in windows to use them. And now it's too late (or not if you guys tell me that i can increase its size) because i've only gave the windows partition 5 GBs of capacity and after installation only 1.7 GBs is left free. What if i want to watch a movie i downloaded that is 2 GB in size? i can't possibly drag that into my windows partition after i downloaded it with OS X because it will be too big for it. What can i do now?

I believe you have to go back to the original mac partition and start from there. Just like it was a new set up of boot camp.
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