Tranfer photos & files from one computer to another

I would put them all up to Microsoft's free skydrive (or Amazons) and then download them to new computer. This would leave a copy in the cloud. Any files that I did not feel safe keeping in the cloud I would put on a flesh drive. I would then put the flash drive in a safe place as a back up and sync the flash drive every so often.

Now all your files are backed up as well as transferred