There're three ways to do this. When you plug in the flash drive, will be assigned a drive letter, let's say G:.
1) Right-click what you want to copy to the drive, point to "Send To->" and click on G:.
2) Use copy and paste.
3) Use drag and drop. I don't like this method because it's easy to make painful mistakes with it.
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Good luck.
I have a 4-5 year old Acer (Aspire), Vista (Windows). Just got it from a friend. Had data transferred from my old XP by Best Buy. Deleted whatever data I didn't need, but have group of files (11.5 G), that I'm not sure about. Want to put them in a USB flash drive, and get them out of my computer (for now). Have never done this before. Wanted to make sure I did it right. Got new PNY with 16G capacity to do the job, but I need some help

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