>>Anyways, Looking for suggestions on how to run windows 7 securely on the internet<<
I don’t think that is possible. It is just too old.
VM a workstation is good. Better, use a VPN (PIA, NORD, etc.), duckduckgo is a non-caching secure search engine with browser plugins for internet exploder, Firefox, giggle crime....
Unless they are compromised by external actors or internal (pgp/zimmerman comes to mind)the VPN route is pretty good-ish. There is some bandwidth overhead (much like TOR), but if searches are not graphics intensive....
KYPD
Easy. Linux Mint with VirtualBox. Test your game first under VirtualBox. As long as you enable the CPU virtualization features and Open GL plays nice there is virtually no performance hit. Mint is very Windowsy. You won’t have a big learning curve.
You wont care if you get Windows 7 hacked/infected. Every VM technology has its version of snapshotting...VirtualBox included. It’s easy to manage snapshots in VirtualBox—you can take snapshots of a running VM or a VM in a saved or even off state. Once you create a snapshot, you can restore a previous snapshot, delete a snapshot, and view details of a snapshot.
Linux is great. Seriously.
Tech Ping
Get malwarebytes which is a anti malware and more importantly a anti ransomware program. Also webroot anti virus and use Firefox or your browser of choice but get the Adblock plugin which after a while of right clicking on ads and blocking they soon do not show up at websites. Ads can have malware embedded in them.