End-users will have to do more application configuration and management tasks than they do now.

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He expects it will improve time to market for financial-services applications by automating the configuration of testing environments and reducing application-testing times from days to hours.

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If shutting down an application frees a lot of memory and doesn't cause problems, look at the listings in the System Configuration Utility's Startup tab for those same tray programs you deem unnecessary--for example, the RealPlayer StartCenter.

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