How to transfer a site on my HD to a local testing server?

My site, which I developed in Dreamweaver CS3, is currently
all static HTML. I'm making progress in changing it to have some
PHP content, but my initial work is all on my live site -- whereas
I want to be able to do development and testing on a local testing
server. I've successfully set up XAMPP, and am making progress in
developing some pages on a *new* local test site (which I've
installed for local testing at C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs),
which I've set up to have PHP-based dynamic content. What I *can't*
figure out how to do is to take all of my local content for my live
Website (which is currently at C:/Documents and
Settings/MyName/MySite/) and move it to
http://localhost/ (at C:/Program
Files/xampp/htdocs), so I can can develop and test new dynamic
content for my site locally against my local Web server. I suspect
that there are some simple steps to accomplish this goal, but I'm
pretty new at this, and can't figure it out. Any advice/guidance
will be greatly appreciated!

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Open Windows Explorer, navigate to C:/Documents and
Settings/MyName/,
right-click the MySite folder, and select Copy. Then navigate
to
C:/Program Files/xampp/htdocs, right-click, and select Paste.
Your site will then be at
http://localhost/MySite/
Wow, that was simple. Thanks! (I had assumed that I needed to
make the change somehow from within Dreamweaver, vs. in Windows
Explorer. But I guess that's necessary only if/when you're moving
files around *within* a site.) Thanks so much!
I think that Dreamweaver will fuss at me that my testing site
(actually,
http://localhost/visiblewind)
is in a subfolder, whereas my live site (
http://www.visiblewind.com)
is at the root, for synchronization-related issues. Will that cause
issues if I do switch from a separate FTP program (which I'm
currently using) to synchronization via Dreamweaver?
p.s.: I ordered your "Essential Guide..." yesterday -- am
expecting it in the mail when I get home tonight!

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