Data migration for existing user to a new pc

This is something that i've been struggling with for a few years now at my current position.

Setting up a new machine for an existing user with data.

There are solutions out there such as windows easy transfer but I find this just doesn't help me much.

I would say most users here do not know how to run this even with a guide or say it takes to much time to do. Really dont buy that answer so I gave up on doing that.

So far the only solution i found is to use the Admin share to transfer their data through our network.

This isnt so bad but it takes time to find out where all there data is scattered.

For some reason people jsut dont want to use my documents or desktop they want to have 100s of folders under c drive.

We have even setup a file share where each user gets 30gb of storage but hardly anyone uses that either.

For those who havent used the admin share here is a brief example.

Old computer where the data resides is called comp1 and i'm currently logged into the new machine as administrator.

\\comp1\c$ Thats it. It will prompt you for the user\pass so enter it in for that machine administrator.

From here on its 2 windows open with copy paste to move the data.

I could setup some scripts for the known folders but really with all the data scattered its easier for em to use the CTRL click method.