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Cookies do not slow your computer down.

Too many cookies or temporary internet files might slow down a badly-written web browser (possibly some versions of Internet Explorer).

Accessing a cookie on a badly fragmented hard disk may also slow your web browser down (much like pulling a book from a bookshelf that is alphabetized versus finding a book in a pile of books).

But they CANNOT slow down the computer in general. Only your web browser ever looks at this data.

(Your computer might behave badly if it runs out of disk space. If you are out of disk space deleting temporary internet files might free some up. The cookies don't take up much space though.)

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