well cookies are just text documents that track what u do on the web, they can be useful, like when yahoo use them, but lots of websites use them to track what u do on the web, which is usualy y they get disabled. if you want to endabl them, go through your internet options (tools>internet options>[security tab]>custom level) o btw, where > is means "click this then this"

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java script can be downladed from java.com, its free and everything, but normaly comes with windows. but microsoft are weird so it dosent alot of the time lol
hope that helps a bit
SL