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If selected, then any child processes that are launched from this application (or its children) will also match this rule. The rules are still processed in order, so it is still possible for a child process to match a higher precedence rule (or Workstyle) first. Therefore, this option will prevent a child process from matching a lower precedence rule.

If an application is launched by an on-demand rule and this option is selected, then the children are processed against the on-demand rules, and not the Application Rules. If this option is not selected, then the children will be processed against the Application Rules in the normal way. You can further refine this option by restricting the child processes to a specific Application Group. The default is to match <Any Application>, which will match any child process.

If you want to exclude specific processes from matching this rule, then click …match… to toggle the rule to …does not match….

Child processes are evaluated in the context that the parent executed. For example, if the parent executed through on-demand shell elevation, then EPM will first attempt to match On-Demand Application Rules for any children of the executed application.

If the application allows a user to open or save files using the common Windows open or save dialog box, then selecting this option ensures the user does not have admin privileges within these dialog boxes. These dialog boxes have Explorer-like features, and allow a user to rename, delete, or overwrite files. If an application is running with elevated rights and this option is disabled, the open/save dialog boxes will allow a user to replace protected system files.

Where present, this option is selected by default to ensure EPM forces these dialog boxes to run with the user’s standard rights, to prevent the user from tampering with protected system files.

When enabled, this option also prevents processes launched from within these dialog boxes from inheriting the rights of an elevated application.