Joyce, The only cookies you may want to keep are the ones that provide a convenience to you, such as cookies for ancestry, facebook, and any other program you use that you want to recognize you and save time logging in. If all cookies are deleted, the only problem is that it can take a bit more time logging into sites you use that require logins. In some cases the site may provide the user name, and in other cases the site lets you in immediately without login. I have about 20 - 25 cookies that I tell CCleaner to keep. I don't know about the IE cookies, but no problem if they're deleted. IE will replace them anyway if the site is accessed. Woody ============= In a message dated 2/19/2014 6:27:26 P.M. Central Standard Time, joyce_c@rogers.com writes: Hi Woody - Yes thanks I now see the breakdown of the 11 files showing cookies for Internet Explorer and one for IE - Index.dat files Yes I could move a few or just delete them all when I run cleaner. However as Internet Explorer is a necessity on the computer even though I use Firefox as my browser I don't know if any of the cookies that IE use would actually be necessary or beneficial. Would you have any idea? Joyce Crete ============== On 2/19/2014 3:00 AM, gen-newbie-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Might be that cleaning out the internet temp files and cookies will help. > >But lots of cookies are beneficial. You can use CCleaner to select the > >cookies you want to keep when you use to clean up your computer, and then > >it will delete the rest. > > > > > >Woody