Windows

Bash

• 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

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

https://superuser.com/questions/1843873/windows-11-seems-to-have-disabled-all-ways-to-get-around-auto-update-restarts-i