Windows
Bash
Download Git for Windows to get a copy of Git Bash.
Alternatively you can download MSYS2 or Cygwin.
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.
- Run
bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimalin a cmd prompt with admin - Change to ACHI in UEFI
- Run
bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot
- Reasons not to use Intel Raid
- It is a fake raid managed by the Intel driver.
- It will not be recognized in Linux. It is better to use software RAID on both Windows and Linux.
- See the Archwiki RAID page
- 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
Chocolatey
Chocolatey is an open source package manager for windows.
It is particularly useful for managing CLI applications such as ffmpeg and youtube-dl.
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