Moving desktop shortcuts to new computer

What I usually do is copy the files in the Desktop folder to the new machine or user. You need to be sure that the account has sufficient permissions to access the files/folders/etc, but more often than not there are no issues.

Obviously, if the shortcuts are for applications, the applications will have to be installed on the new machine.

First, wrong forum, these questions are better in the Q&A section. Second, more info please, your moving from what to what? Two systems on a network, a 98' machine to a XP server? You can just copy the desktop folder from one system to another, and edit out any applications, or data you don't want to transfer. Problem with transferring short cuts, if they are related to an installed program, is that they won't do you a bit of good on the system transfered to. You will need to reinstall those programs on the new system, which will of course reestablish your short cuts. You might also look at the properties of the short cut, map the path to the URL, program, mapped drive or whatever else the short cut is pointing to, and then find that source on the new machine and create a short cut from the original source on the new machine. If you don't know how to do this, I would strongly urge you to discuss what role you will be playing with this server, and whether your up to the task. Good luck either way, and please respond with some more info!