It appears my dilemma has been solved. I managed to borrow a Windows laptop and I installed VMware Player on it and copied my virtual machine files to it. When I tried to open my Windows 10 vm, it wanted to know where the Windows 7 vm was. I pointed to it. Apparently, when I created Windows 10, it was linked to Windows 7?
When Player started up Windows 10, the Windows 10 startup page appeared, but then it switched to the Windows 7 startup and Windows 7 started. That didn't help and I couldn't find a way to mount another file.
I then downloaded 7-Zip and opened the file and lo and behold, there were my files. I copied them to a local drive and they all appear to be there. I haven't yet tried to open a sampling of them, but I feel good about it.
Thanks to all for you assistance with this issue.
