Is there an easy way to mass-transfer all files between two computers?

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Published on 2010-12-20T19:50:06Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 6:55 UTC
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I'm currently visiting my parents for the Christmas holidays, and as I'm sure is the case of many in the post-tech generation, my arrival brings with it the assumption of personal tech support.

I've been tasked with setting up my folks' new computer, and they want to make sure all their files, yes, all their files, get transfered over to the new device.

Short of manually dragging each folder in the C:/ directory onto an external hard drive and then out onto the recipient computer, is there an easier / faster way to do this?

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