Setting up New Computer

You can easily move all data files to the new computer with 1 of several different cable connections.

For any of them, you need a special transfer cable.
Parallel port
Serial port
USB port

Then, you need to enable direct cable connection from Network neighborhood.

Other alternatives:
CD-RW disks
Network cards and a cross-over cable.

You are best off re-installing any application onto the new PC rather than trying to transfer it from the old PC.

For more advice, and quicker answers, you should post questions in the Technical Q&A section.

Chas

I'm not sure about anyone else here, but on a standalone I just pop the the lid, take out the three or for screws holding the drive in the old box, slave the drive to the primary and copy over the files I want, shut it down, pull the drive back out and pop the lid back on. Then I either part out or return the drive to the original box. It takes all of about 3 minutes on each side to get it in and out. It's not really all that hard to do it over a network either but you're gonna have to install software and a serial or usb 1 is slow, and putting in a network card and removing it is more work.
Temporarily popping in the disk seems like the shortest most direct route to me. :)

There. That's my 2 cents.

If you want to move your applications and data a product is PC upgrade commander. It comes with a parrellel cable or you can transfer over a network. You can find it here...

http://www.v-com.com/product/pcuc_ind.html

When you state "everything" it implies OS, applications and data. That being the case you need a cloning utility like Drive Image or Ghost. Since your new machine will have a different hardware config cloning may not be an good option.