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NES Palette Divisibility Standard?

I learned from someone that when trying to make palette values for Super Nintendo (SNES), the values must always be divisible by 8 and always rounded down to the next value of 8. But when I looked at some palette values for NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), this standard did not apply. So what then is the divisibility standard for NES Palette values? --Arima (talk) 06:11, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

List of video game console palettes § NES: Does this help any? There's also an article on the Picture Processing Unit, the NES display controller. That has some external links that look informative. --47.146.63.87 (talk) 18:43, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

I want to remove the "Windows Setup" option that shows up everytime I boot.

I don't want this 'Windows Setup' option while booting the computer. I had tried to install windows 10 from my USB(I didn't make it bootable; I tried to install directly by going to installation file which was in the USB) and it asked me to restart and after it got stuck on windows 10 logo without spinning dots and restating from there many times, I decided not to install it so I unplugged the USB and decided to use the same Windows 7 OS but even when I have already unplugged the USB, that same Windows Setup option is still appearing while booting with another option which is my Windows 7, if I don't become quick and don't select windows 7 option quickly, it will go to the same windows 10 logo without no dots and restart from there. Please help me. Also if you could please tell me why I am not being able to install Windows 10 on my desktop PC as all the requirements meet. sahil shrestha 12:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sahil shrestha (talk • contribs)

Open the start menu, type "msconfig" and select the program. You'll get a window called System Configuration. Go to the tab Boot. You'll probably have two entries, I'm guessing something like: "Windows Setup : Default OS" and "Windows 7 (C:\Windows) : Current OS". Click on Windows 7, click the Set as default button and click OK. It'll tell you it needs to restart the computer but you can click Cancel ifyou don't want to restart right now. If you can't figure out how to do this, there's also a "Timeout" box where you can type the number of seconds the screen should stay on. Can't help you with Windows 10 as I don't use it myself. 93.142.121.167 (talk) 23:08, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

It worked! Thank you so much! But i have a question, will the garbage installation files also be deleted after I did that?

No OS is harmed when changing boot order, so no, the installation files will remain. I presume Windows 10 tried to install in another partition and that's where the garbage files are. That partition now probably contains the boot manager. If you delete (the partition that contains) the boot manager, you'll have to recreate it so that Windows can boot again. If you know which partition it is and have the Windows 7 installation disc, you can delete it from Windows, then follow this guide to get Windows to boot again. After it's running again it won't be a bad idea to run startup repair from your installation disc again (without doing the fixboot thing) to repair the damage caused by the Win10 installer. That might even take care of the bugs you mention in the other section. 93.142.121.167 (talk) 18:35, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Re: Windows 10, it could be that your computer is too old and weak to support Windows 10. Win10 has a lot of problems with older hardware. If you're gonna stick with Win7 I suggest installing the free Simplix updates to keep your system secure after end-of-life. 93.142.121.167 (talk) 18:39, 27 September 2020 (UTC)