Icloud photo library on windows pc not syncing

I have an iPhone 6 and activated iCloud Photo Library.  I downloaded and installed iCloud for Windows on two different PCs.   Neither of those PCs have all of the photos in their iCloud Photo Library that are on my phone.   There are 316 pictures on the phone, while one PC has 110 photos and the other has 151 photos.  The most recent photos on the PCs are from March 28th, which is about 3 weeks ago.   Obviously the syncing is "stuck" but I haven't been able to unstick it. I have tried turning off iCloud Photo Library in the iCloud control panel on the PC and then turning it back on.   that doesn't help.
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