Backup & Restore - Old Machine to New

New prospective laptop will have Window7 (W7) 64-bit & old one has W7 with 32-bit ; I'm not sure if this is the way I should be looking at it , but it seems like I'd need to backup everything on the old machine but then restore everything except the old operating system, W7 32-bit ; in addition to my own data files I'd also want to retain Office, Norton, Printer software, etc. - problem is I don't know where the operating system resides and so I don't know how I would screen it out .
I have an external hard drive to hold the backed up files and it looks like Windows backup, for example, gives you the option to pick the files to be restored ; using the Lenovo backup utility could also be a possibilty.
I'm sure many others have done this when upgrading their computers and others in this audience may have much more computer insight than I and so any insights or suggestions on how to do this would be appreciated .

Refer the pages below:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/32-bit-and-64-bit-windows#1TC=windows-7
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/229040-how-upgrade-window-7-32-bit-windows-7-64-bit.ht...
In one word: you'll need to reinstall your applications and might be able to move user data (profiles) to the new OS environment.
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