Windows activation tech popup, unknown publisher for all .exe, several seemingly un-repairable, corr

It seemed to have started with the "Windows activation technologies" popups about a month ago. Several times a day it will tell me that my version of Windows is not genuine. I did upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit a year ago but haven't had any trouble since

then. I went through the online steps to resolve it through the popup. It would download something but right at the end of the download it would say that it couldn't complete and that would be the end of it... But the popups continue.

I also noticed that I am asked to confirm that I want to run certain programs, allow programs to make changes, because they are apparently from unknown publishers. This includes cmd.exe, msconfig, etc. This made me think that these files could be corrupted,

lost signatures, idk. So I ran "sfc/scannow." It found files that it couldn't repair. But I don't know how to read the log it generates in notepad to find a particular file that needs attention. I did notice that some of those logs noted the file couldn't

be repaired because it was in use so I re-ran "sfc" in safe mode with programs turned off wondering if that would help but no.

So... What do you think?

Thanks!

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