20 Most Recent HP Compaq Presario CQ50-110US Laptop - Page 10 Questions & Answers

Right click on your desktop, select "Personalize", click on "Change deskop icons" from the left pane. and check Recycle Bin or

1. Goto Start->Run and type in Gpedit.msc and press enter.
2. Navagate to USER CONFIGURATION >ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES >Click on DESKTOP.
3. On the right hand pane find ” Remove Recycle Bin icon on the desktop ” , double left click on it to disable it.

Solution: When you first boot up your computer, keep pressing F8 until a few options come up, select Safe Mode. If this doesn't work, try running a repair installation of your Operating System. If problem still persists, then do a fresh installation (back up data too!) of your Operating System. Either way, I fresh Operating System preforms at its peak. Hope I helped - donman92

please update drivers for touchpad ...it helped me to solve my prob on Toshiba satellite :)

don't update your laptop.....kindly turn off all windows update...
uninstall all audio, hd modem, and UAA bux driver for high defination driver in system device....restart your lpatop..go to hp.com and search following no. for modem driver-(sp33442), for audio driver(sp35270), for UAA driver (sp32395), download and install...
and install drivers follow these steps:

Open device manager and right-click on Audio device on High definition Audio Bus.
Select Install from a list of specific location (Advanced) Click Next
Select Don’t Search. I will choose the driver to install.
Select Sound, Game & video controller from the list of Hardware type
Click on Have Disk
Click on Browse and navigate to C:swsetupsp35270 and click on .ini file OK
Click Next
It will give you an update driver warning message. Click on yes.
It will start installing the driver
Click on Finish..

I hope your problem is solve now.......

www.driverguide.com or www.download.com would have drivers also it would not hurt to check the support section of www.hp.com as compaq is now hp and they would more then likely have them as well, thanks Btw, I’m available to help over the phone in case u need at https://www.6ya.com/expert/edwy_1a56970cf1ea4620

don't keep running it until you replace the fan. Look for one on ebay or around the web. It is shutting down because of heat. A $20 fan could cost you your whole laptop if you keep running it.

To disable the touchpad, follow instructions on website below:

Disable Touch Pad of your Laptop

sorry to hear you lost your computer.

There is no efficient way to trace or block a computer.


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plz check your hard drive, cd rom and ram

check the kind of Hard disk if SATA ,,change sata mode to ATA or disable sata mode on bios

You are on shaky legal grounds, unless you have proof that it is your computer and have grounds to have a search for your personal information on that computer. That person could have also wiped the computer clean and reinstalled the Windows operating system.
I suggest you monitor your financial affairs closely to see if there are any unauthorized access to your accounts and credit cards, then you will have grounds for fraud investigation.
I think you should have a talk with a solicitor, this could be the least cost in the long run, especially if you have banking details on your computer.

When you get a new computer or your one back, you can protect the information on your computer and hard disk by placing a Power on Password on the laptop and a Password on the hard disk.
This will prevent unauthorized access to the laptop and hard disk. Even if the hard disk is removed and placed into another laptop, the data is locked and cannot be retrieved without the password.
These password should be recorded and placed in a safe place because if forgotten there are no backdoor passwords available.

Best of luck, I hope thinks turn out OK for you.

Some newer systems came equipped with a limited subscription to Lojack - an electronic tracing service. Depending on where you live, you can try to use the service if you signed up.

I can't imagine how the police could consider a theft of this value being a civil matter unless you didn't report it for a year, at least in the USA.

If the CPU heatsink is not clogged with dust and lint completely, you can use canned air and just blow it inside the laptop through the openings on the bottom and on the sides. It’s nice as a precaution measure, but it might not work if your laptop already has a problem and the heatsink is completely clogged.

1. Open the laptop case, so you can access the CPU fan and the heatsink. In some cases you can access the heatsink through the latch on the bottom of the laptop. Sometimes you have to open the laptop case all the way down.
2. Carefully disconnect the fan cables on the system board and remove the fan. If the fan makes unusual sound when it spins (grinding sound), I would recommend to replace the fan.
3. Clean the fan and the heatsink with compressed air.
4. I would also recommend removing old thermal grease from the CPU and applying new grease for better heat conductivity.

type the command rstrui.exe to restore the system to previous state this will fix the problem

Ok, you should have a recovery program that will sort this out.

If you have a recovery CD, just insert it as soon as you turn it on, and it will then boot from the CD. Just follow the on screen instructions.

If you don't have a recovery CD, you may have a recovery partition on your hard drive. For this you need to enter your BIOS/settings screen. When you turn on the laptop, keep pressing F2. If this doesn't work, and Windows tries to load, switch it off, and try again by pressing Del.

When you are looking at the BIOS screen, you should have along the top, some page options (Something like, Information, Main, Security, Boot and Exit). Using the arrows on the keyboard, move over to Main. Now, somewhere on the screen should be something called D2D Recovery, or something similar. Highlight it and make sure it's Enabled. Also, when you highlight it, on the right habd side of the screen it will list Item Specific Help, and this will tell you what keys you need to press, this is normally Alt + F10. Now move over to exit and select Exit Saving Changes. This will then restart the laptop. As soon as it restarts, keep pressing the keys that it listed on the BIOS screen. Follow the on screen instructions.

Hope this helps.

Hi I've recently fixed 2 laptops with a very similar error, neither of which were Hewlett Packard Compaq's. That aside its a fairly common error and that is a loose connection. Unless you've a lot of experience in dismantling and reassembling laptops, I strongly reccomend taking it to an experienced technician.

I hope this helps

Have you downloaded the Xp sofware update from the Compaq website? Maybe it contains the extra drivers?  If you know which audio chip(From manual,also downloadable for below) you could go to their website for the audio driver.


http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us〈=en&product=3752689

A simple but temporary solution would be to use an external mouse. Logitech sells several affordable and very nice wireless mice. Then you could disable the touchpad. I find them more trouble then their worth anyway and by using an external mouse you'll most definitely increase your productivity. :)

Appears that recovery disk #2 is bogus. U can try to get a new set from HP (fat chance!) or you can do a reload from a normal, retail OS disk.

Hello Most laptop or PCs, has a combination keyboard pressing keys, that invoque the restore routine. usually F11 or F10. others has DVD, check and see what you have of these two. in the first one, you recover from a disk partition the whole OS.