Vista - USB Transfer cables?

Saw in Best Buy today a Windows Vista Easy-Transfer Cable and
Software.

Has anyone used this? What exactly does it transfer?

I have two concerns

1. It may not move the user files to the correct, new places in Vista

2. It may transfer (or attempt to transfer) a lot of the junk in the
settings and data folders for products that I may not install. Then I
end up with a lot of junk.

I'd love to hear from people who have experience with this, thanks.

It transfers what ever you want to wherever you want

I have a Belkin Easy Transfer Cable used in the last couple of days
(you don't mention the brand).
In theory, it transfers what you want.
In practice, I found one had to be very, very careful. Read 4 times,
transfer once.

....Alan
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:22:22 -0800 (PST), in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general, MikeB <MPBrede@xxxxxx>
wrote:

The cable uses Windows EasyTransfer to transfer the files, so it works as
well (or as poorly, if that's your assessment) as EasyTransfer works in any
other case.

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"MikeB" <MPBrede@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6a334381-6ba2-4438-b4f8-777e4902e50d@xxxxxx

On Jan 5, 1:23*am, Alan Edwards <edwa...@xxxxxx> wrote:Alan, thanks for your answer. Perhaps by accident, you also responded
to my email and I answered you directly. Feel free to ignore that, you
guys who help out here must get a ton of email.

"MikeB" <MPBrede@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6a334381-6ba2-4438-b4f8-777e4902e50d@xxxxxxIt's basically a USB2 crossover cable for transferring data between
PCs. If the PCs have LAN connections, you can do the same thing
with a LAN Cat5e crossover patch cord. The difference is that, if you
don't have gigabit LAN cards in both PCs, the USB2 transfer rate
would be greater than with a 100mbit LAN connection.