In the latest Eclipse i.e Eclipse 3.5 a.k.a Galileo, the plugin management module has been updated and so is the way one can uninstall a plugin.

To uninstall a plugin

1. Click on Help -> About Eclipse
2. Click on Installation Details button
    
3. Select the plugin which you wish to remove and click on Uninstall
   

There are times when you need to restart Eclipse (other than the obvious reasons)

• If you are running the IDE for days together, the IDE does become sluggish. A quick look at the memory occupied by Eclipse also is an indication to restart Eclipse
• If you install new plugins when the IDE is active/open, the new plugin functionality is not activated until you restart Eclipse.

The normal way to restart is to close the IDE (saving the workspace) and again run Eclipse.exe. If you have a shortcut, it would definitely help you to start Eclipse quickly.

However there is another easy way to restart Eclipse:

File -> Switch Perspective -> Choose your Current Workspace

If you use more of keyboard than mouse, you should do this:

Alt + F + W -> Select your current Workspace

This will quickly close Eclipse and restarts the IDE using the same workspace that you were working on.

If you have installed any new plugins, they will be loaded during the restart. (In some rare cases, the plugin might not load and hence you might have to do “eclipse -clean“)