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DO NOT USE DROPBOX TO TRANSFER FILES BETWEEN HOME PCs IF ANY OF THE FILES HAVE PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION AND OR BANK/FINANCIAL OR MEDICAL RECORDS.

You surrender your 4th Amendment rights when you use dropbox according to rulings in several Federal District Courts.

If you can move the PCs close enough together, use a CAT5 cable to create a wired network just between the two PCs.
Depending on the type of network adapter you have on each PC, this could transfer files at 10Mb/S or 100Mb/s , which should take you no more than a few minutes.

If you don’t have a cat5 ethernet cable, I’d suggest buying a USB external Harddrive or a USB thumbdrive. With the idea being after you finish this task, either of those will have continued value to your household and be used repeatedly.

Windows has an “Easy Transfer Wizard” that is made for migration to a Windows 7 machine.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/windows-easy-transfer

Pick your operating system from the downloa doptions and install on your old machine. Run the program, select what you need to transfer, and start building the transfer files. The wizard bundles all the files to be transfered into large compressed files that you can then copy to the new machine by your selected method of transfer. DO yourself a favor and make sure you select the correct size to create the transfer files.... i.e. size of a Cd, size of a DVD, etc.

On the new windows 7 machine... simply type in “easy transfer in the “run...” box in the start menu and the easy transfer wizard will be the first search result. RUn the wizard, point it toward your large compressed files you copied to the new machine, and you’ll be finished in 30 to 60 minutes.