Hi Kevin My poor explanation I am afraid :-( Opening Ccleaner on the first "Cleaner" page there are two panes, one for Windows, the other for Applications , it was on the Applications tab that Cookies was unchecked Having just spent a few minutes studying the various options it appears that somewhere along the line clearing cookies for Firefox has inexplicably been turned off So having righted that and cleared the cookies which I thought had cleared each day........and No change :-( Still can't get google instant to turn off Coming to the point when Bing is looking very tempting Why do companies think that by making it difficult to change settings everyone will just put up with it I have tried contacting google, frankly I found it nigh on impossible, rather like ebay in fact Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hi Nivard, > > Not sure what you mean by this statement... > (ie cookies still show in the Cookies section in the left pane) > > The "cookies" box will always remain ticked on until you choose to > tick it off (i.e. not delete any cookies) > > When you click on the "Analyze" button, before actually doing a > Cleaning, do you get results that show you will be deleting cookies? > > As well, in CCleaner if you click on the Options selection (Left > Side), then click on the Advanced button, you will have an option that > should be ticked ON... "Only delete files in Windows Temp folders > older than 24 hours" > > This will leave any Windows Temporary files that are less than 24 > hours old, as is. Not sure if this affects cookies, as well ?!?!? > > > Regards, > Kevin.