Re: What's it called?

[Jan <janron -at- CONCENTRIC -dot- NET>]

John,

 

To the question "what do you call an .exe file that is not the main executable?" -- I'd probably call it "an .exe file."  Seems to me that the novice user/English-not-the-first-language business might be a red herring here -- won't your users, whatever their language and experience level, be able to see that the name of the file ends in .exe?

 

But I wonder if you could sidestep the issue...

 

Would you really have to say both "Run this ???" and "Result:  This will run the ???"?  And if you do have to say both, what about saying "run the process" rather than "run the executable/program/file>?  (You could name the process, if that would be important to your readers:  "To run the FixThatThing process manually....")

 

What about something along the lines of...

 

[If the abnormal event occurs, you must run the process manually.]

To run the process manually,

1.  Look in the directory C:\Program\<ApplicationName>.

2.  Click on the <filename> file to highlight it, then press Enter.

 

[After running the process manually, go back to main installation process.]

 

Regards,

Jan