New install and copying airplanes.

I want to have all my airplanes from old computer transferred to new and eliminate the default commercial planes.So,I moved the airplane and gauge folder to a safe location and copied my backups to new install.Got the fatal error message.Deleted those 2 files and copied originals back and all is fine.Is there another way to accomplish my goal?Thanks,Ron.Also I copied my standard.xml file to controls folder hoping to keep my keyboard assignments etc but that did not work either.I am expecting shortcut miracles?Thanks,Ron