Windows

Bash

Download Git for Windows to get a copy of Git Bash.

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,

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 to AHCI

Reference
You should be using ACHI instead of IDE or RAID.
Note that Intel's Rapid Storage Technology software raid won't be recognized by linux systems.

• Run bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal in a cmd prompt with admin
• Change to ACHI in UEFI
• Run bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

Application Management

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is an open source package manager for windows.
Install Chocolatey by following the directions on https://chocolatey.org/install.
It is particularly useful for managing CLI applications such as ffmpeg and youtube-dl.

# Installs ffmpeg
choco install ffmpeg