Precautions

Support ended for Windows 7 on January 14 2020. Paid ESUs are for professional and enterprise versions only. Windows 7 shouldn’t be used as your everday operating system any more, put it on a spare computer or a virtual machine. Use the Windows 10 media creation tool to see if your existing computer can upgrade to Windows 10.

If you decide to stay on 7 anyway install Edge to replace Internet Explorer. Chromium browsers are phasing out support in January 2022. Firefox and other Gecko browsers haven’t announced an end of support date yet.