Copying Documents and Settings

I have a new computer and am in the process of copying my files (using an external hard drive) from my old C:\ drive to my new one. Everything went very smoothly except:

There is a folder in my Windows Explorer "Documents and Settings". I never use it because I have set up my own "filing system" based entirely on Windows Explorer folders and sub-folders. However, Windows continues to put "stuff" into "Documents and Settings". When I tried to copy this folder (to be on the safe side) copying was denied because of the presence of files NTUSER.DAT and ntuser.dat.LOG in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator and NTUSER.DAT and NTUSER.DAT.LOG in C:\Documents and Settings\Default User.

So three questions:

1. Do I need Documents and Settings or can I ignore this and stop attempting to transfer the files?

2. If I need this folder, can I safely just transfer the files and folders without transferring the NTUSER files?

3. what are these NTUSER files?

Many thanks.

Walter

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