Thanks! yes I change this as it appears as “untrusted” even when I signed it with my dev ID and is seating in my own computer… can you point me to where I can learn how to properly set this? why make is trustworthy “manually” is not good?

Sorry, as to # 3 above, AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges would not be acceptable, as it seems to require an admin password for each task that requires privileges. What I need is to grab the password only once, and then use it as needed, depending on the options choose by the user ( it will be used 3 - 4 times, probably less, this is a very simple app).