Just start Win7?

As some of you may know, I have a Windows 7, but I also have some files on it that I would like to transfer. Can I just open and start the laptop or do I have to pay attention to something? And are there dangers like hackers?

4 times yes

So I can just open it (the last time I shut it down around New Year's Eve) and go on the internet (it is still connected to the Wi-Fi)?

I received an update on Windows 7 in February and two days ago.

We usually leave it on overnight.

Your sentence construction is incomplete, my young Padawan.
Not in contact with the Internet you should bring Windows 7.

This can't have been a Microsoft update, however, because support has been discontinued.

Discover the power, the power of Linux you have to look for, LOL

Of course you can go on the internet, but what you do there's the question. If you go to contaminated pages, open every attachment and have "allowed" everything that has been asked of you, it is risky.

Otherwise: If you go online with a standard browser, it is typically configured so securely that hardly anything happens to you if you stay on reputable sites.

I'm not necessarily going on the internet… But thank you very much! (Is internet explorer also safe?)

And why not?

Windows 7 is a retro operating system whose open and known (!) Security holes are never fixed.

And no, virus scanners don't help either.

The Microsoft Edge Browser, which offers security on the Internet, has been set up on the computer.

The biggest security risk of a computer remains its user! Also with the ie

But don't you have to press any particular button when starting or something? Read that you have to do that…

Switching on electricity usually helps.