Maybe I've done one or two too many searches for the 'Noddy House' (above) - a rentable bungalow in the Gaudi-styled hotel we will be using for Tossers-in-the-Tejeda V - as this morning I had an e-mail from Amazon offering me a Noddy House playset.
I can recommend CCleaner - I use it regularly to automatically delete all cookies, search history and lots more junk as well as clean the registry and optimise the startup - not that I have anything to hide of course
A new law came into effect in May 2011 to stop 3rd party companies harvesting data by use of cookies without explicit consent.
Companies were given 12 months grace to put their houses in order, few have yet done so.
This grace period expires in late May, then the shit may start hitting the fan as the fines are quite large at a maximum £500,000 per prosecution!!! see here
Hopefully that will reduce the amount of cookies on your PC by a large amount.