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Git for Windows - this is a modified version of MSYS2
MSYS2
Cygwin
Windows Subsystem for Linux - WSL2 is a full linux VM

Blue Screen

How to troubleshoot BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).

When windows encounters a BSOD, it will create a minidump (.dmp) file in C:\Windows\Minidump.
Copy out this dump file to somewhere like your desktop.
There are various software to open the minidump files such as WinDbg Preview and BlueScreenView,
Typically, blue screens are caused by driver crashes in my experience. Windbg preview will point out the driver which crashed from the minidump.

WinDbg Preview

How to use WinDbg preview

Open your minidump
Type !analyze -v

Hosts file

Wikipedia: hosts (file)
%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Changing IDE/RAID/VMD to AHCI

Reference
If you are not using Intel RAID, you should be using ACHI instead of IDE or RAID.

Run bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal in a cmd prompt with admin
Change to ACHI in UEFI. On newer boards, it may be known as Intel VMD.
Run bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

Drawbacks of Intel RAID (also known as Intel VMD)

It is a proprietary software raid by the Intel driver which does not work with Linux.
You may run into problems when changing motherboards, and sometimes even just after updating the bios.

Application Management

Winget

Docs Winget is included in App Installer

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is an open source package manager for windows.

Install Chocolatey by following the directions on https://chocolatey.org/install.

# Installs ffmpeg
choco install ffmpeg

# Upgrade all
choco upgrade all

# See installed packages
choco list --localonly

Event Viewer

See Reason for last Restart

Go under Windows Logs-System.
Filter with Event sources: User32

Windows Update

Prevent Auto-restarts

Auto-restarts are easily the worst part about windows. They happen even if you're doing something such as training a model or other data processing.
See the long complaint thread at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/disable-windows-10-automatic-restart-after-updates/16f1826d-a796-4de8-ac99-1d625420d265?auth=1.

From JimmyAppelt/disableWinRestartOnUpdate.md

Run gpedit.msc

In the Local Group Policy Editor, go to

Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates-> Windows Components-> Windows Update

Double-click on “No auto-restart with automatic installations of scheduled updates”.
Select "Enabled", and then click "OK".

Notes

I'm not 100% sure if this works.
Group policies are only available on Windows 10 Pro.

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 * Copy out this dump file to somewhere like your desktop.<br>
 * There are various software to open the minidump files such as [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windbg-preview/9pgjgd53tn86 WinDbg Preview] and [https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html BlueScreenView],
+* Typically, blue screens are caused by driver crashes in my experience. Windbg preview will point out the driver which crashed from the minidump.
 ===WinDbg Preview===
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 <code>%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts</code>
-==Changing IDE/RAID to AHCI==
+==Changing IDE/RAID/VMD to AHCI==
 [http://triplescomputers.com/blog/uncategorized/solution-switch-windows-10-from-raidide-to-ahci-operation/ Reference]<br>
-You should be using ACHI instead of IDE or RAID.<br>
+If you are not using Intel RAID, you should be using ACHI instead of IDE or RAID.<br>
 * Run <code>bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal</code> in a cmd prompt with admin
-* Change to ACHI in UEFI
+* Change to ACHI in UEFI. On newer boards, it may be known as Intel VMD.
 * Run <code>bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot</code>
-; Reasons not to use Intel Raid
+;Drawbacks of Intel RAID (also known as Intel VMD)
-* It is a fake raid managed by the Intel driver.
+* It is a proprietary software raid by the Intel driver which does not work with Linux.
-* It will not be recognized in Linux. It is better to use software RAID on both Windows and Linux.
+* You may run into problems when changing motherboards, and sometimes even just after updating the bios.
-** See [[Archwiki: RAID]]
-* You typically run into problems when changing motherboards, and sometimes even just after updating the bios.
-* On consumer Intel boards (Z370, Z390), your M.2 slots are wired to your chipset which only has a PCIe x4 connction to your CPU.
-** This means you won't receive a significant performance boost if you use RAID 0 on 2 higher-end NVMe SSDs.
 ==Application Management==
+===Winget===
+[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/ Docs]
+Winget is included in [https://www.microsoft.com/p/app-installer/9nblggh4nns1#activetab=pivot:overviewtab App Installer]
 ===Chocolatey===
 [https://chocolatey.org/ Chocolatey] is an open source package manager for windows.<br>
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 ==Windows Update==
 ===Prevent Auto-restarts===
-Auto-restarts are pretty annoying. They happen even if you're doing something such as training a model.
+Auto-restarts are easily the worst part about windows. They happen even if you're doing something such as training a model or other data processing.
 See the long complaint thread at [https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/disable-windows-10-automatic-restart-after-updates/16f1826d-a796-4de8-ac99-1d625420d265?auth=1 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/disable-windows-10-automatic-restart-after-updates/16f1826d-a796-4de8-ac99-1d625420d265?auth=1].
+From [https://gist.github.com/JimmyAppelt/1b85b518c7fd44b6742fe2aafa17b646 JimmyAppelt/disableWinRestartOnUpdate.md]
 # Run <code>gpedit.msc</code>
 # In the Local Group Policy Editor, go to