text: i have another pc ,i need to transfer my files to . how do i do that? i have another pc i need to transfer my files to this new pc do i have to have both hooked up at the same time you could use a crossover cable if both pc's have ethernet cards.  join them in a mircosoft network.  this word require both to be working at the same time, but you can boot one, unplus the monitor and keyboard and hook it up to the other.  this is hard to do if you have never done it before. other method which only need sequencial (not concurrent) computer use: one product that i have used sucessfully is norton's ghost.  this is especially good if the new computer has a blank hard drive. another method is to use a cd writer from the old machine to copy the file to a cd-rom which can then be read on the new pc. finally and external hard drive (or less expensively, a flash drive) could be used to copy the files. data files are easier to transfer than programs (which usually have to be installed on the new computer).