It is not a method I would recommend for anyone that has no working knowledge of the Windows File system and user file locations.
And, to be perfectly honest, that's why I didn't recommend it.
I stand by my earlier recommendation for the uninitiated that they simply copy off the appropriate C:\Users folders for active accounts to an external backup drive and use those to restore via either a cut/paste or copy/paste from the backup drive to the respective same locations for the same user accounts as they are created on the new machine.
Here is what C:\Users looks like on the machine I'm typing from in File Explorer:
The folder for my own account (which one might guess from my user name right here on Sysnative, is the 5-character truncation of "britechguy" that Windows uses for the folder structure). If I copy this folder off to an external backup drive, almost every file I've ever created goes along with it, since I keep the majority of material I create under that folder. The rest of it is under the Public user folder, and if you're someone like me who uses that, it should be copied, too. If I wanted all of the actual active users' data then every one of those folders except Default would bet copied off for later copying back on the new system.
Unless you, or someone else,
has intentionally placed data you've created somewhere outside your own set of folders/libraries (Documents, Music, Videos, etc.) then anything you have ever done will be in the C:\Users folder that corresponds to your own user account or the other users' accounts, respectively.
Any programs you routinely use would require you to reinstall them. And that includes Office, where if it's a single machine license you will need to uninstall it on the old machine after you're sure it's installed correctly on the new one.
