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1 hour ago, robodelfy said:

Thanks, I am happy to go after each border run. My question was more asking if it is any issue to actually rent somewhere for so long and stay in one place. As it doesn't seem like a very touristy thing to do? But maybe its fine?

Renting in the same place for years on tourist visa, I have never heard of causing a problem, nor have I seen a law or regulation not allowing it. I'm confident you are fine doing that.

I don't mind the chap who installs for big C centre Rd.  He makes a vacuum in pipes and does a decent job I think. Ask the staff there for his noomba

11 minutes ago, robodelfy said:

Thanks everyone, I will contact the consulate about the employment thing then

 

But as for renting, I know it will be easy enough to find a place to rent, but will it be a problem to be ion a tourist visa but staying in one place for so long? And as someone said about not even registering again after each visa run, would you recommend this? 

 

Thanks

I've been told must and I've been told don't have to at different times by different officers at jomtien.

My feeling is that if you only go the first time, you'll be ok.

My recommendation though is to go after each border run. No harm done.

Pressing of the F10 key or and with the alt key can be temperamental

Try a few more times. Be quick to start tapping away at the/those key/s. Try pressing and holding  down continuosly for 20 seconds And be sure the computer is booting from a complete shutdown. When you're in windows Pressing and holding the laptops power button down for 10 seconds will completely shut down. The screen should blank out suddenly during that 10 seconds for a complete shutdown. 

Once exhausted a few attempts of getting into factory restore we would have to come to the conclusion that factory restore partition didn't exist in the first place, has been deleted, or corrupted or it has been disabled in the disk management that was mentioned in a previous post.

it seems you will need personalised , face to face help.

The charge for reinstalling fresh windows shouldn't be more than a thousand baht at a computer store.

If you buy an SSD then you could get a discount on install.

SSD 250gb drive should be about 2 thousand baht.

It's a pity no factory restore menu could be accessed. It makes things super easy

Good luck.

It takes literally 10 seconds to turn the computer on, tap the F10 key or "alt" key plus F10 key together to get to recovery process going. These are the usual keys for viao. The rest of the process takes up to an hour and just requires answering a few simple questions or  selections.It's only hope the op has to do it by himself it seems. It's worth persuing. Sure the recovery partition may not be there but until tried you'll never know.

I haven't heard back if the op has tried the above. 

As for the backups, how is the op doing with that? Could you boot into safe mode? Does the computer run stable enough to copy your files to USB?

Electric cars with batteries. I like it a lot.

Cost of assembling an engine with all its parts as compared to an electric motor with batteries wouldn't be that much different. 

I think the deals behind closed doors are the problem. 

43 minutes ago, Tofer said:

Model number Sony Vaio - PCG-71311M. 

 

Thanks.

Ok. Cheers, before going on. Are you happy that you've backed up your very important files?

If you keep tapping f8 while the computer starts and immediately after you press the power on button. You will have the option menu appear to allow Safe mode.

Best choose that to do backup.

Be aware that computer must be properly shut down first and not just in sleep or hibernation mode to recognise f8 key press

Let me know you have completed backup because the next step wipes everything.

6 minutes ago, happy chappie said:

So it was a cock up by the aussies too.there is no red notice for hakeem and he's being locked up for no reason.he is innocent but that don't mean nothing in Thailand.the problem with Thais is they shoot first as they don't know what the question should be let alone any answers.a cock up by Australia and an even bigger cock up by Thailand.hes been given refugee status which would of cleared him from the Interpol red notice so I can't even see how the Aussies have contacted Thailand to say he's on the list.

Australia sometimes just outsources important tasks to overseas call centre and HR companies. And then says do whatever stupid stuff you want as long as it's not bothering management cause we're off playing golf.

The random decisions and flow of money for many reasons can't be overlooked. Property purchases. Traders. Import export deals, who's to know everything that's going on in the world. One thing for sure. It seems to cycle from low point to high. Surely Aussie dollar can't drop much more. What goes down must go up. Please go up.

5 hours ago, MaxLee said:

All an act to save Face for Thailand, not more than that.... 

Although, coming from Australia and being so frustrated dealing with idiots in different government departments, I can't help but feel Australia buggered up a bit.

Problem is people who do poor work keep their jobs. We need more Trumps in the world.

This is why I love China. They do the tit for tat which mostly works.

Thailand gives an Aussie in shackles. Aussies give you a Thai in......cosy pyjamas. Oh I dunno.

10 minutes ago, CMNightRider said:

Lol, what are you the spelling police ????

Seplnilg si vrey iorptmnat ot smoe. 

10 minutes ago, Stocky said:

I consider this the quickest way to get things sorted!

 

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3669

Does this install from within windows? Need to make bootable usb? Will it support drivers for viao

Actually im interested in this Linux  to put on my Acer windows tablet.

Do you think it has touch screen support for pc tablets? Will drivers be installed automatically?

11 minutes ago, marqus12 said:

I have not been granted a visa recently (multi entry NON O 1 year

at the consulate) as father of a Thai citizen.

And they suggested to my girlfriend that we should get married

and deposit money into a Thai bank.

 

I treat marriage and sh*t extension as too much restriction on

my personal freedoms .  So even though I bravely endured being

a father in Thailand for 5 years, I think there will be another single mother soon !Our 7 year relationship is difficult and probably will

not survive the next unnecessary problem !

Quite appalling when people tell you to get married for a visa instead of the ancient tradition of love. Im glad you kept calm and didn't wack anyone.

1 minute ago, chrisinth said:

As long as nothing nasty has got into the partition tables. This is why I suggested in an earlier post the only way to be (almost) sure you are starting with a clean disk is to remove all partitions on the disk and then format before continuing with a proper fresh install.

 

Factory reset is the easy way to do it if available as long as you know the recovery partition hasn't been compromised. And by going down the reset path you will still need all your updates downloaded and likely be left with all the bloatware from a probable OEM from the manufacturer. So a proper fresh install for me would be the preferred course.

 

As the OP has stated, two times previously a professional has reinstalled. IMO not much chance of the manufacturer's recovery partition remaining but you never know.

 

At the end of the day using the reset is fine (if available). I probably complicate things by going the extra couple of steps.

never heard of or experienced problems with factory partitions being infected. Corrupted possible, but infected, no.

Anyway even if possible, the steps remain the same.

If the factory partition windows were to fail then it needs a person with more experience than the op may have.

I.e. boot up a windows install CD or USB. Make sure boot type and sequence is correct. Format partitions, deal with drivers. Etc

Is there a Model number underside?

1 minute ago, chrisinth said:

Might be an idea if he went to Disk Management to make sure he has a recovery partition.

 

On W7 go to Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management\Disk Management (I think!).

 

He should see a similar display as that below; this was taken from a W10 confuser.

 

Sometimes hidden, corrupted or hard to know what the partition has. No real need to know anyway.

Just Need to know model number. Find out which key to tap.

Tap the key on startup. Either the menu will show( factory restore possible) 

Or the menu won't show( no factory restore possible).

So the next big question. Look underside of laptop and look for model number. Or check manual.

2 minutes ago, Stocky said:

That sounds like a full factory reset to me, though admittedly not explicitly described as such.

 

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Yes full factory reset just like out of the box. Unadulterated, uninfected fresh windows. The only way to be sure and get things done quickly.

1 minute ago, chrisinth said:

I would try to make sure that whatever data you uploaded to the cloud in the first instance was as clean as you could get it. I have been using the cloud for a couple of years now, there are hardly any personal files on any of my computers.

 

But to be completely honest I'm not sure what sort of antivirus/anti malware they would be running, but again I'm pretty sure they would have something to protect their servers so, in turn they would probably alert you if one of your files were corrupt.

 

Perhaps someone with better knowledge of this could answer you?

You need to copy all of what you want to backup on external backup first. Then wipe hard drive clean and reinstall fresh windows. 

Then the next step will come of checking the integrity of your backup later.

Do step 1 and 2 first.

Step 1. Backup important docs,photos etc.

Step 2 back to factory windows

Already discussed.

Step 3. Put back safe files. Still to discuss.

2 minutes ago, Stocky said:

 

It seems he's already done a factory restore, twice, yet the issue persists, which would suggest there's some trojan / malware hiding amongst the backup files that have been subsequently restored.

I think he's used a soft restore via windows. He needs to boot to the hidden restore partition on the hard drive. A hard factory reset. I didn't see any posts suggesting he's done that.

I think this was the thread where I said I would post back my result from checking about opening a bank account for purpose of condo purchase. Most users would follow the same related threads anyway if I've misposted.

In short, I wanted to test if "my friend" could open a bank account in order to buy a condo. Surprisingly , only 1 out of 4, (krungsri) said he could but I think it was because I was a long standing customer already and they wanted to help me.

3 others including Bangkok bank said I needed to show condo paperwork first plus other items.

So in my opinion it has become very annoying and near impossible to open an account unless you have a work permit. 

That was only my experience on the day. Yours may be different.

As you were....

6 hours ago, Tofer said:

I have a Sony Vaio which has an assist button, but it says I have no problems in the 'solution centre'. It recommended system tune up and when I tried to run that it froze up, so I shut down again.

 

Thank you for your offer of the SSD, but at the moment I'm more interested in getting my computer to work properly and not too concerned about it's speed right now. I will certainly consider this upgrade if / when I get this machine to someone to fix the software intrusion problems, or purchase a new machine.

Here is an example how to factory reset a Vaio. Your Vaio may be a different model and instead of F10 may be a different fn key. What's your exact model number? Any sticker underneath.

Backup your important info to USB hard drive or stick first.

It really sounds like you need a clean fresh install by this method though. Easy peasy.

It gets harder if you have no factory restore partition. Viao should have it.

There is a watch repair place CNR centre Rd and soi bua khao

He couldn't help with my Skagen glass repair because part not available to him. I had to go to official Skagen repair agent. But I'd go back and give him a shot. Going on vibe only, worth trusting.

But vibe can be wrong. At your own risk.

On 1/29/2019 at 6:44 AM, Sydebolle said:

Luckily she did not get arrested for not having a work permit. 

But I am sure that the avalanche of Chinese will do good deeds and follow the example .......... 

I think many more conscientious falang would pick up trash and other things like teach English for free, but strangely that behaviour upsets the authorities.

No probs. I pick up the odd bit of rolling in the wind trash in Oz with no repercussions. I'm going to heaven.

Chatted to an English chap this morning. He was on his way to airport in evening. Off to Brazil never to return.

That something in the air is getting thicker. 

And I'll consider Spain or Brazil first when my time comes. But for now, I'll see your rudeness and raise you with politeness.