That's not right. Personal's only limitation is you cannot open documents created by someone else.
You can use it as long as you like with your own documents that your userid on your computer used. If you upgrade to Windows 10 it may consider you a different user then when you were on 7/8.
You are allowed a few document recoveries which is what people are talking about.
Here is what I would try:
1) if possible have someone with a license open it for you
2) do a binary load of that QVW you will get all of the data but none of the charts
3) get a license if possible
It is also possible the QVW is corrupt or you are locked out by section access.
Can you give the specific message you get when trying to open it?
Do other documents open for you?
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