Programs have to be installed on the new computer.
I cannot send them over the network? I burned a cd with some documents yesterday. Be an all week event.
you may have firewall enabled which would prevent windows file sharing.
You could email the files to yourself then logon from the different computer, If the files are many then you could use winzip and attach the .zip in email them to yourself. You may have to give it a different extension than .zip for the email then rename it later
Or, you could use http://filezilla-project.org/