I really don't want to get rid of any of the cookies that are useful to me ....if there is such a thing.
Hellllllppp
I am new at this and have not been able to get my 'puter to disk clean on her own.

Hi Adele. You have a female computer?

You can untick the Cookies box in Windows/Internet Explorer or Applications/Firefox to keep all your cookies. Alternatively you can keep these boxes ticked and save any particular cookies you want by going to the Options/Cookies window and simply dragging the desired cookies from the left to the right panel. Don't worry about selecting the wrong cookies, you can move them to and fro until you get it right.