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From what I gather it isn't "Thai residents", but Thai people and it isn't "tourists", but "foreigners."

Google is not a native speaker of English. Do you pronounce the "t" in "water" and "butter"? I didn't when I was young because that was the dialect I was brought up in. Later, I moved to the south east of England and friends at school and people all around me kept correcting my grammar and pronunciation. There is no one correct native English pronunciation as there are hundreds of dialects and to be fair they are all correct. Oh, I pronounce the "T" in often.

The way the bus slowly veered off the road is almost like the bus driver had fallen asleep. I was once on a bus from Pattaya and I noticed the bus was slowly slowing down and changing lanes and when I looked up in the driver's mirror I could see his eyes were closed. I clapped my hands hard and shouted and he woke up, straightened the bus up and carried on. I made several loud coughs and sneezes on the rest of the journey. I never travel by bus nowadays. Nice to know that no one was killed in this accident and I hope that the injured recover quickly.

Then why didn't the driver slow down. Poor visibility isn't the cause. Going too fast under low visibilty could be.

Maybe they parked at other places and were driven to this house. That seems to be what happens near us. The Alphards drive back and forth bringing 4 or 5 Chinese people each time, so it doesn't look so suspicious.

The operative word being "could." Also, why are they only banned during Songkran? I would love to know how many actually get fined because I am sure they will out and about on those roads.

I have noticed that if I close down the computer and restart within a short time (up to 30 minutes) there are no problems, but when I shutdown at night and try to turn on in the morning I need to do a hard restart. I have disabled fast start up. Set all button and lid settings to "turn off computer" A Google search said that it could be a RAM problem, but this is a new RAM module and a Lenovo Vantage scan showed no problems. I still have my old hard disk installed and there were some bad, unreadable sectors on that, but I can't imagine that that causes this.

Sleeping?

We shouldn't jump to conclusions, but with all the Chinese people being convicted of illegal activities nowadays, it seemed they had something to hide.

It sometimes feels like people are not supposed to walk in cities with blocked footpaths, no footpaths and total disrepect for pedestrians.

Yes, it Corei5 8th gen. Yes, I will

No, I didn't do a system back up. As I mentioned my plan was to buy SSD drive, extra ram and do the work at home, where of course I would have done a disk image. The guy in the shop offered to do the whole thing for 500 baht, so I agreed. I expected him simply to do the same. Make a disk image either as a back up or by copying from the hard drive.

I didn't want to leave it with him, but after 2.5 hours of waiting I had to leave. As I said I was going to add the extra RAM (remove the old 8 GB and add a 12 GB) and slot in the SSD drive myself. I really believed it was a 10 minute job. I was quite happy to ditch the old hard drive, and I am not sure what he did when he started reformatting it. Anyway, I have just noticed that I still need a hard reset after a longer shutdown. I am beginning to wonder if there is a fault with the SSD drive although I ran Lenovo Vantage and all was well. Time for a clean install!

Yes, I must admit I thought about doing a clean install. I backed up my data last week, so I am ok with that.

Yes, I saw the SSD drive listed in the boot sequence, but diabled the USB anyway. Maybe I should enable it, just in case I need it in the future. .

windows 24H2 build26100.3476 It seems it is Windows Pro, whereas before I used Windows home. I can see the product key has been activated, but I really don't know if it a pirate copy or not. I prefer to have a genuine version.

I went into the BIOS and disabled "usb boot" All the options in "power settings" were set to "sleep" and I have now changed to "shut down". I closed the laptop down and restarted immediately. All went well. I'll try again later today, but thanks a lot for your help

Lenovo Ideapad 330S

I will try. I'll let you know how it goes

Thanks I'll have a look at the power settings later when I get 10 minutes to myself. My hard reset is holding the power button down for about 20 seconds with the charger disconnected. I actually checked BIOS and drivers for updates before I upgraded, but as the shop installed a new version of Windows maybe I should check again. I stood next the guy for for about 2 hours (I hate when they start changing too many settings) and later when I came back he told me that it would be some time and that he could send the laptop to me. Later, he told me that he had installed a new version of Windows ( together with quite a bit of software that I never use.)

I shut it down via Windows shutdown. When I try to power on , nothing happens unless I do a hard reset.

I wanted to upgrade my laptop by replacing the hard drive with an SSD card and add more RAM and at first planned to do it by myself, but as I had it with me when buying the components I asked the shop to do it for me for 500 Baht. Surprisingly, it took them nearly all day and they re-installed a new copy of Windows plus extra software that I don't need. Anyway, now whenever I start it up I have to do a hard restart, otherwise nothing happens. Any ideas as to why? and what I can do about it. I don't want to spend a whole day going back to the shop just yet.

1. Fully loaded with stone! I watched lorries on a building site near here and when they carried stones or mud they were only half full. 2. Lost its brakes. I hope they find them soon so that the authorities can check as to why they didn't work. 😁

This is an April fool's joke, right?

So suddenly we won't see these huge adverts for soda water any more. I am sure the breweries spend more on promoting soda water than they actually earn on selling it.