Thanks guys, I only need to move my photos and document, letters etc. from Textmaker which is part of Softmaker Office suite. I don’t understand why I couldn’t do it via usb, obviously as a tech nerd I am missing something. I will try Deviators suggestion, is computer name the make? I just call it my PC.
What was the issue with USB?
Was it the Mac couldn't see the USB?
Is the USB formatted as FAT32 rather than NTFS (Mac's NTFS driver is at best flakey)
Presumably your old laptop was USB-A given its age, and the M1 is USB-C, so you are using an adapter? Apple hardware is fussy on adapters.
To use you new crApple device, you will have signed up to iCloud. You can install iCloud for Windows on the old laptop. Copy your docs to the iCloud folder on Windows, and they will slowly start to appear on the Mac. The freebie iCloud is only 5Gb, so you probably wont be able to get them all over in one go, which means moving them once they have sync'd over, then doing the next lot (though using cloud storage long term isn't a bad idea, and despite its horrible limitations, iCloud isn't that expensive for the 50Gb version)
**NOTE** cloud storage is NOT a viable form of backup, dont let anyone tell you otherwise, so you still need to backup important stuff locally to optical media or external drives etc.
Once you get documents over, there is no guarantee the Mac apps can understand them, though the photos show be fine. Also, be aware, the M1 is ARM based, and not all applications from last year "work" under the Intel x86 emulator. With the M1 being so new, and the first to use an overgrown iPhone CPU, much of the guff on the internet is irrelevent. Beware of following instructions blindly