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A configuration is the set of plug-ins available in a particular instance of the Eclipse Platform.  A given installation of Eclipse may contain hundreds or even thousands of plug-ins.  More than one Eclipse-based application can share this same install location, but they don&#146;t always want to use all the same plug-ins.  When Eclipse is started, a <i>configurator</i> determines what subset of the installed pool of plug-ins will be used for that particular instance of the platform.  By default, all installed plug-ins will be in the configuration, but  a configuration can be customized to contain different groups of plug-ins. Go to '''Help &gt; Software Updates &gt; Manage Configuration''' to see and modify what plug-ins are in your configuration.

== See Also: ==
*[[FAQ What is the minimal Eclipse configuration?]]

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