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When I start my Mac up, I randomly get this gatekeeper message. It never seems to progress and if I shut the Mac down and bring it up again from cold, the message will oftern disappear. All apps are closed when I shut down, as I do see this more often when windows are re-opening. This, taken with random shutdowns, which others have mentioned, males the Mac experience less so.
Follow on to previous reply regarding Etrecheck Report.
Some of the hardware failures from the report could be brought on by the Kernel extensions installed or could be an actual Hardware Failure.
Suggest considering having the computer Evaluated by an Apple Authorized Service Centre
Depending on the users decision on above - would not spend too much time attempting to clean up this computers software. The extent of the modification and therefore the compromised state it is in, would require a great deal of time and effort and still may not produce the desired results.
That said - the user ( you ) may what to consider doing an Erase of the operating System via this Apple Method and then doing a Clean Installation via this method from Apple
Once that is done - do not suggest using Migration Assist to bring back all the Application etc.
Issues that may exist on Time Machine Backup at the time it was made will be migrated to the New Installation. This would badly pollute the new Original and Pristine installation of the new OS.
Follow on to previous reply regarding Etrecheck Report.
Some of the hardware failures from the report could be brought on by the Kernel extensions installed or could be an actual Hardware Failure.
Suggest considering having the computer Evaluated by an Apple Authorized Service Centre
Depending on the users decision on above - would not spend too much time attempting to clean up this computers software. The extent of the modification and therefore the compromised state it is in, would require a great deal of time and effort and still may not produce the desired results.
That said - the user ( you ) may what to consider doing an Erase of the operating System via this Apple Method and then doing a Clean Installation via this method from Apple
Once that is done - do not suggest using Migration Assist to bring back all the Application etc.
Issues that may exist on Time Machine Backup at the time it was made will be migrated to the New Installation. This would badly pollute the new Original and Pristine installation of the new OS.
Is appears there is some application or applications that have installed an automate script to start once the camputer is started.
Would start by checking System Preferences >> User & Groups >> Login Items as per below pic for reference and see what application are set when the computer starts.
If nothing unusual appears, move on to the next series of trouble shooting methods to identify the possible issue.
1 - Suggest restarting in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.
2 - Does the issue present in this mode ?
3 - If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.
4 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then this appears to be a System Wide issue.
5 - Suggest downloading the Application Etrecheck directly from a well Respected ASC Contributor. And Safe to use.
The application is free or paid from added features.
Run the application with Full Disc Access ( Security & Privacy - Full Disc Access ).
It will take a Snap Shot - both the hardware and software.
The Report will Not Reveal Any Personal Information.
Post back the Full Report - copy and paste - using the Additional Text Icon ( 3rd Icon to last )
We can have a look at the report for possible issues and may have possible suggestions to resolve the issues.
Any Third Party Applications that will interfere with the normal operation of the OS, alter, modify, remove or delete or attempt to do so is an invitation for disaster and may require a Reinstallation of the OS.
Any of the below should be removed as per Developers Instructions
This includes AntiVirus, Disk Cleaners, Disk Optimizes, UnInstaller etc.
Hi. Thanks very much.
This was particularly useful, as I've recently done a complete erase and re-install, but then used Time Machine to restore things - including, of course, all of the problems that the erase would have fixed.
I will copy my stuff onto external hard drives, erase and re-install, then install the applications that I actually use, from their respective sources.
I'll run Etrecheck again and assuming those problems don't appear, I'll re-instate my Time Machine and do a full backup.
Hi.
Thanks for your reply. I've run the tests and removed some adware stuff that was still lingering, despite the actual program being removed some time ago. So far so good.
Here's the full report
You are welcome and thank you too.
Do come back to the Apple Support Communities ( ASC ) in the future, if / or when additional question may arise
Random startup issue since Monterey update
