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Force the closure of windows that were opened during the session

  • April 14, 2026
  • 1 reply
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We are interested in enabling this option: Force the closure of windows that were opened during the session. 

We expect that it will close any opened command prompts that are elevated from run as etc. 

But will it also close other applications that are open done by the user like word/outlook etc. 

The explanations found on internet and the bt documentation don't say much and would like to know more on this, or if anyone else has enabled it and can tell me what exactly is happening with all the apps that are open when the engineer jumps onto the machine does his bit and jumps off again. 

We also don't see an option to test it or assign it to a test group to experience the behaviour as it seems to be an all or nothing setting. 

 

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  • BeyondTrust Employee
  • May 26, 2026

Hey ​@edwinb77, my understanding is that the feature is limited to what is launched as part of the support session workflow, not everything that happens on the endpoint while the session is active. For example, it targets apps and processes which are launched through rep actions during an elevated session (user-initiated activity outside of direct session actions are generally not included).