You can, however, selectively delete any cookies that you see here. If you have both IE and Netscape Navigator installed, NS cookies are stored in a separate folder, and not affected by any IE cookies you remove. They only display as though there were mixed with the Temporary Internet Files. I deleted all the files by the Last Accessed time stamp on them. There are some cookies you may actually want to keep.
Cookies are usually good things.
All this is done on a Secure Sockets layer, which displays a padlock icon in the IE status bar at the bottom of the screen during a purchase transaction. Amazon also has a One-Click Purchase feature, which I use to order and pay for a book with just one click. I love all these features, so I love my Amazon cookies. Under the View Objects button you'll find a list of Java and ActiveX object files in your Downloaded Program Files folder. You probably don't want to make any changes here.