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Aug 29, 2015 10:47 AM in response to abledpublby Eric Root,Try a restart.
Do a backup, using either Time Machine or a cloning program, to ensure files/data can be recovered. Two backups are better than one.
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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Aug 29, 2015 11:04 AM in response to abledpublby MrHoffman,Before making any changes here, first get a backup of your current environment. This is your path back, if something goes wrong.
The "alerts" I suspect you might be referring to here are from Gatekeeper, and enabling all sources automatically is something I'd avoid.
If the alerts you're receiving are not from Gatekeeper, but from something else, please identify what the source of the alerts might be — if you know that.
If you're repeatedly receiving alerts for opening the same application, then I'd first remove Bartender, and would remove any anti-malware or any anti-virus tools, any performance accelerators, clean-up tools, cache management tools or other extensions, and similar add-ons and packages. Get back to the baseline configuration. See if the problem persists.