Easy method to transfer files to new toshiba L505D-S5965 Laptop

Hi All,
A few days ago I purchased a new toshiba L505D-S5965 laptop , I currently have a acer aspire 5100-3357 laptop that has windows vista home premium installed on it, of course with all service packs, updates installed on it. As of now..I've yet to even power up my new toshiba ( even though I can hardly wait to do so ). I just want to get started off doing everything correctly. What I've done so far is use the built-in windows easy transfer utility on my original laptop, I copied everything over to a external hard drive. Now I believe all I have to do is decide which files I want to transfer to my new toshiba. Does anyone have any further information suggestions about doing this ?
Thanks,
David

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