A couple issues on a new save

[Syncrinity]

Hi everyone, I wanted to ask for advice on two issues that I ran into during today's playthrough. Hopefully there's a quick fix. 

 

The first is that the system tray (for the life of me I can't remember the technical name) continuously pops up every minute or so. It'll warn me of a wandering horde or something similar, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to stop popping up. 

 

The second issue was odd, but for some reason none of the POI that my fiancée or I entered had any zombies, they were all empty. We used the spawning file to increase the normal environmental zombies by 4x for this save, but in our last 3x save everything seemed fine. Do you guys know what might be causing this? 

 

 

Thank you for any help I get, it's much appreciated. 

[SylenThunder]