Since a few days this toshiba laptop L670 with windows 7 home on it is displaying this nag screen:
http://www.skybuck.org/Windows7/WhatIsThisHorseShit/WhatIsThisHorseShit.png
Removing updated for windows KB 3004394 did not help.
THE MYSTERIOUS CONTINUES.
Scanning for WGA dlls related to windows activation technologies shows some interesting candidates for modification/denial/surpression:
C:\Windows\System32\slwga.dll
seems promising to disable ? not sure what this is yet.
This may be a case where help from some assembler debugger experts may be usefull/helpfull/required to get some insight into what is going on ?
Do you still have windows 7 ?
Can you inspect slwga.dll ?
Can you find the source of this trouble ? Strange...
Windows updated was disabled at least 1 year ago, been working fine, legal keys present etc, I did change date back to 2004 a few days ago for an experiment that may have something to do with it, meanwhile date restored to normal, this issue persists, very strange and mysterious.
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Irrelevant folders snipped by Skybuck, kept wargaming log folder, might show some 3D chip failure:
Microsoft Windows [versie 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. Alle rechten voorbehouden.
C:\Users\new>cd\
C:\>dir *wga*.* /s
Het volume in station C heeft geen naam.
Het volumenummer is FAAE-6E1D
Map van C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.18362.0\um\arm
18-03-2019 18:10 1.710 slwga.lib
1 bestand(en) 1.710 bytes
Map van C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.18362.0\um\arm64
18-03-2019 19:05 1.718 slwga.lib
1 bestand(en) 1.718 bytes
Map van C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.18362.0\um\x64
18-03-2019 18:51 1.718 slwga.lib
1 bestand(en) 1.718 bytes
Map van C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.18362.0\um\x86
18-03-2019 17:44 1.730 slwga.lib
1 bestand(en) 1.730 bytes
Map van C:\Users\All Users\Wargaming.net\GameCenter\logs
22-10-2021 00:48 1.361 wgc_20211022_014800_345.log
22-10-2021 00:48 1.464 wgc_20211022_014815_223.log
2 bestand(en) 2.825 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\System32
21-11-2010 04:24 15.360 slwga.dll
1 bestand(en) 15.360 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\issuance
14-07-2009 02:53 3.617 client-issuance-wgalic.xrm-ms
1 bestand(en) 3.617 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\SysWOW64
21-11-2010 04:23 14.336 slwga.dll
1 bestand(en) 14.336 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\winsxs
14-07-2009 06:30 <DIR> amd64_microsoft-windows-g..ets-slideshowgadg
et_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_815d27dbb889ba17
14-07-2009 06:30 <DIR> amd64_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget-insideb
ar_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_04ef2896fc362397
14-07-2009 06:30 <DIR> amd64_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget-ondeskt
op_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_0790637f4328e8f9
28-02-2011 22:02 <DIR> amd64_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget.resourc
es_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_nl-nl_82a7edcc6623edd9
21-11-2010 04:24 <DIR> amd64_microsoft-windows-security-spp-wga_31b
f3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_5d778f71b9f4fd55
14-07-2009 06:30 <DIR> x86_microsoft-windows-g..ets-slideshowgadget
_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_253e8c58002c48e1
14-07-2009 06:30 <DIR> x86_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget-insidebar
_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_a8d08d1343d8b261
14-07-2009 06:30 <DIR> x86_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget-ondesktop
_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_ab71c7fb8acb77c3
28-02-2011 22:02 <DIR> x86_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget.resources
_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_nl-nl_26895248adc67ca3
21-11-2010 04:23 <DIR> x86_microsoft-windows-security-spp-wga_31bf3
856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_0158f3ee01978c1f
0 bestand(en) 0 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-m..ow-gadget.resources_31bf38
56ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_nl-nl_9d6be6f957e6608a
28-02-2011 22:02 3.584 WMPSideShowGadget.exe.mui
1 bestand(en) 3.584 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-m..yer-sideshow-gadget_31bf38
56ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_841e9494c8a32794
14-07-2009 02:39 165.888 WMPSideShowGadget.exe
1 bestand(en) 165.888 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-s..-component-issuance_31bf38
56ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_9dbd9c6261eb657b
14-07-2009 02:53 3.617 client-issuance-wgalic.xrm-ms
1 bestand(en) 3.617 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-security-spp-wga_31bf3856ad36
4e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_5d778f71b9f4fd55
21-11-2010 04:24 15.360 slwga.dll
1 bestand(en) 15.360 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\winsxs\Manifests
14-07-2009 03:20 19.864 amd64_microsoft-windows-g..ets-slideshowgadg
et_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_815d27dbb889ba17.manifest
14-07-2009 03:16 3.074 amd64_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget-insideb
ar_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_04ef2896fc362397.manifest
14-07-2009 03:27 2.222 amd64_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget-ondeskt
op_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_0790637f4328e8f9.manifest
28-02-2011 22:01 7.477 amd64_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget.resourc
es_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_nl-nl_82a7edcc6623edd9.manifest
21-11-2010 04:16 2.264 amd64_microsoft-windows-security-spp-wga_31b
f3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_5d778f71b9f4fd55.manifest
14-07-2009 02:54 19.860 x86_microsoft-windows-g..ets-slideshowgadget
_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_253e8c58002c48e1.manifest
14-07-2009 02:50 3.072 x86_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget-insidebar
_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_a8d08d1343d8b261.manifest
14-07-2009 02:58 2.220 x86_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget-ondesktop
_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_ab71c7fb8acb77c3.manifest
28-02-2011 22:01 7.475 x86_microsoft-windows-g..howgadget.resources
_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_nl-nl_26895248adc67ca3.manifest
21-11-2010 04:16 2.262 x86_microsoft-windows-security-spp-wga_31bf3
856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17514_none_0158f3ee01978c1f.manifest
10 bestand(en) 69.790 bytes
Map van C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-security-spp-wga_31bf3856ad364e
35_6.1.7601.17514_none_0158f3ee01978c1f
21-11-2010 04:23 14.336 slwga.dll
1 bestand(en) 14.336 bytes
Totaal aantal weergegeven bestanden:
42 bestand(en) 53.175.056 bytes
10 map(pen) 12.883.824.640 bytes beschikbaar
C:\>
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Bye for now,
Skybuck.