Living in Toronto in today’s economy chances are you work long hours and when you get home all you want to do is kick back and surf the internet, work on some applications, chat or play games..

When the computer won’t start; shuts down automatically, computer boot problems, your computer shows the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death”, you suspect you have a virus or spyware and need virus removal, or when your computer is very slow; what are you going to do?

One of the first thing people do is search for “computer repair in Toronto” or “laptop repair in Toronto”. That usually doesn’t help much because there are over 1,000 computer repair companies in Toronto! So how do you choose the BEST computer repair company in Toronto?

The expensive computer repair company with the flashy web site may not be the best, if you pay only for the name, you may not find the good service you expect. Some of the cheapest computer repair companies provide better service better than the big names. You need to find first what you are looking for.

The best computer repair companies in Toronto provide onsite computer service or “house call” services. They usually provide onetime service and warranty their computer repair work.

People should ask about the service from A to Z, not just the charges, before turning your computer over to someone for repairs ask if the technician is certified and what kind of certification he has.

A2Z PC Computer Repair Toronto is one of Toronto’s best computer, PC and laptop repair companies. A2Z PC Repair provides onsite computer repairs for home users and business people. No matter what part of the GTA you are in: Mississauga, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, Brampton Richmond Hill, Markham and of course all of Toronto you can depend on A2Z PC for expert computer repairs and virus removal.

Antivirus Live is a rogue antispyware software. It is very similar to the Antivirus System Pro. Antivirus Live is a fake spyware removal tools that spread with the help of Trojans or other malicious software. Once installed, Antivirus Live will scan your computer and display fake security alerts, the scan results it detects are all fake. Antivirus Live will ask you to pay for a full version of the software to remove these infections. Antivirus Live is a scam, Do Not buy this fake antivirus, just ignore this message. This rogue also blocks all the programs especially the antivirus. You may get this warning message when you try to run any program “Application cannot be executed”. The rogue will also hijack Internet Explorer and change proxy Settings to redirect you to the Antivirus Live site.

 Antivirus Live removal instructions:

You should repair the proxy settings of Internet Explorer. Run Internet Explorer, Click Tools -> Internet Options. Select Connections Tab and click to LAN Settings Tab. Uncheck “Use a proxy server” box. Click OK. Click Apply. Click OK.

 Restart the computer into Safe Mode with Networking using your administrator account.

 Kill processes:

Run task manager and kill the process ” sysguard.exe”

Delete registry values:

Click Start -> Run -> type regedit -> Enter. Search for these values using Ctrl+F and delete them:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvScan
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “RunInvalidSignatures” = “1″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = “http=127.0.0.1:5555″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations “LowRiskFileTypes” = “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = “1″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]”

 Search and delete these files:

%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\<random>\
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\<random>\<random>sysguard.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\ovugbs\rwjrsysguard.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\lqtwnu\wqcmsysguard.exe

 If you couldn’t remove Antivirus Live, virus removal Toronto will help you to remove Antivirus Live online or onsite at very reasonable prices.

Computer Repair Toronto

No matter where you are in Toronto, computer repair services are not far away.  If you are unable to come to us, no problem, we will send a professional computer repair technician to fix the problem in your home or office anywhere in Toronto.

One of the primary responsibilities of PC technician is to manage hard disks; it entails installing disks into the computer system and configuring the system to recognize the newly added disks. You will discover the skills that you need for installing, configuring the system to recognize the newly added disks. We introduce you to a new world of terminology related to hard disk installation and configuration, along with other types of storage like CD-ROM and DVD. We also make sure that you understand the difference between IDE, SCSI and Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives. Before discussing the installation and configuration of IDE and SATA drives, it is important to cover some basic terminology surrounding hard drives.

Platters: A platter is a physical object inside the hard drive that is responsible for storing the data. A platter is similar to a record on an old record player, the main difference being that a hard disk has many platters, while a record player holds only one record at a time.

Tracks: Just as there are grooves, or tracks, on a music record, there are also tracks on each platter. These trackes are evenly spaced across the platter’s surface.

Sectores: The platter is divided into pie-shaped slices, called sectors, Now the confusing thing about sectors is that where a track intersects with a sector creates sectorblocks, also known as sectores! Each sector is 512 bytes in size.

Installing IDE – SATA hard drive:
We will give you an idea how to install an IDE or SATA hard drive. Because all hard drives are different. We present only the most popular solutions for installing hard drives.
First, you want to open up the casing of the computer and find an empty bay to mount the new hard disk into. if you are removing the old hard drive, you will be able to use the same bay. However, if you are adding a hard drive, you have to find an empty bay and mount the drive in place. Second, you slide the drive in the bay so that the power connector and ribbon cable connector are facing the motherboard. After you have mounted the drive in place, as a third step, connect the IDE connector on the motherboard to the IDE connector on the hard disk with a 40-wire IDE ribbon cable and then connect a power connector to the drive. The question is: How do you know which pin is pin 1? Hopefully, the manufacturer has indicated Pin 1 by placing a small (1) near it. if you look at the connector on the hard drive and on the motherboard, you may see a small (1) on one end of the connector. That’s where you need to place a (40) by Pin 40 instead of displaying where Pin 1 is, so watch for that as well. After you have connected the IDE ribbon cable, you want to give the hard disk power from the power supply so that you can run the motor in the drive.

Hard drive crashed or failed: The hard drive could fail at any time even if it a brand new one. Sometimes, the computer freezes or crashes at least one time a day. This crash could be the first sign that the hard drive will be failed soon. In this case, the first thing to do is “data back up“. the second sign, when Windows takes long time to load more than usual. The third sign, when you get the blue screen of death with error code shows on the screen. The blue screen of death is related to hard drive failure, memory, video card, motherboard or software problem.

A2Z PC services has provided these information to give you an idea about hard drive repair and data recovery. For more information, please visit our computer services page.

Computer Repair Toronto

No matter where you are in Toronto, computer repair services are not far away.  If you are unable to come to us, no problem, we will send a professional computer repair technician to fix the problem in your home or office anywhere in Toronto.