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Someone recently noticed that there is a "runonce.exe" running on his system and he was curious what this file is doing on his system. We both knew that there is a registry key called "RunOnce" which causes a program to run once after the next restart.

There is obviously a Microsoft program called "runonce.exe" which is used to re-run the setup program for a software to make additional configurations after the program was successfully installed. This makes some sense.

When you ask Google about this file, you might be sent to a site which has the following explanation for this file:

runonce.exe is the Microsoft Run Once wrapper.

This makes perfect sense, but this is only what you get when your primary browser language is English. Here is what you get when you use a German browser:

runonce.exe ist die Microsoft laufen gelassene einmal Verpackung.

This translates back into something like:

runonce.exe is the Microsoft throw-away pack which ran away.

And this is the reason why you shouldn't let a software do your translations. Microsoft is doing it with their knowledge base articles, support websites are doing it, online shops are doing it.

Here is my suggestion:

TRANSLATE YOUR WEBSITES BY HAND OR DON'T TRANSLATE THEM AT ALL!

Seriously.

Do her that all understood or must I it again explain?