Phone photos not automatically uploading to my pc

Question

First let me say that photos taken on my and my wife's iPhone 4 have been automatically uploading to my Windows 7 PC for a couple of years.  I depend on the function to get all of our photos off the phones and into our family album.
Just a few days ago I noticed that no new photos were appearing in the My Picture/My Photostream folder.  After looking around some and finding nothing that seemed out of order I thought it might be related to the only change that I'm aware of and that's the recent iOS7 updates.
Using the procedure/sequence outlined on Apple's support page I removed all of the apply software, including iCloud, rebooted and then reinstalled everything.  During the installation I changed the new folder default to point to the old Photo Stream folder that it had previously been using.  Still, no photos, old or new, would upload.  They were showing up in the Photo Stream album on the iPhone, just not uploading to the PC.
I saw a post that said they had what sounded like the same problem and they fixed it by removing/reinstalling iCloud and accepting the default folders.  I did that and it created a new folder called My Pictures/iCloud with a My Photo Stream sub-folder along with the shared photo streams that we use in our family.  It also created a system folder that shows up in My Computer called iCloud Photos that has thumbnails for My Photo Stream, Activity (a folder that I never created) and the shared family folder Family.  The thumbnail for My Photo Stream shows a couple of pictures that were a couple of the ones that last uploaded.  However, when I open the folder it has nothing in it.  When I click on either Activity or Family it appears to freeze but after a minute or so it will show boxes with a small x in the upper left corner.  Down the right hand side are vertically stacked picture thumbnails for the pictures that I "Liked" on my iPhone.  When I click on Info I see that I was invited to share the folder follwed by another line showing that I have subscribed to the folder.
The control panel iCloud app looks fine -- like I think it always has.
I'm at a complete loss.  I really want the automatic upload to work again but I don't have a clue what to try next.
I've seen a lot of posts from folks having problems with this since upgrading to iOS7 but I haven't seen any "aha" revelations and/or solutions.
Anybody know how I can get this puppy working again?
Thanks in advance,
Howard

Answer 1

Darn, that didn't fix it for long.
I can’t tell you how to solve your iCloud 3.x issues.  Heck, I don’t think they’re even solvable.
But if you had a previous version of iCloud that was working correctly then I can definitely tell you how to solve the “iCloud Photo Stream is not syncing correctly to my Windows 7 PC” problem.  …without even a re-boot.
Log out of iCloud 3.0 and uninstall it.
Open My Computer and then open your C:\ drive.  Go to Tools/Folder Options and click on the View tab.  Select the “Show hidden…” radio button and click on OK.
Open the Users folder.
Open your user folder
Open ProgramData (previously hidden folder)
Open the Apple folder – not the Apple Computer folder.
Open the Installer Cache folder
In Details view sort on Name
Open the folder for the newest entry for iCloud Control Panel 2.x – probably 2.1.2.8 dated 4/25/2013
Right click on iCloud64.msi and select Install.
When finished, the synching between iCloud and your PC will be back to working perfectly as before the 3.0 fiasco.  The pictures will be synched to the same Photostream folder as before the “upgrade”.  Now all you need to do is wait until Apple/Microsoft get this thing fixed and working before you try the 3.x upgrade again.
I think the iCloud 3.0 software was written by the same folks who wrote healthcare.gov with the main difference being that healthcare.gov might eventually be made to work.
For those of you who hate to go backwards, think of it as attacking to the rear.  Which would you rather have, the frustration of no synching or everything working on an older version?
Good luck…