Shared photo-stream, makes long file names with 42 random characters

Windows icloud 3.1, in a shared photo-stream, makes file names with 42  random characters long. It didn't do this in iCloud  2. I have installed  iCloud 3.1 on a windows 8.0 and 8.1 machine and two Windows 7 machines.  They all do the same thing.  It used to give me file names like  "IMG_0001.jpg" now it gives me random file names like  "01a9fc3363330464233a142486180f0c1622eb9fca.jpg" all the pictures are  out order.
Does anyone have fix for this? Does any one else have this  problem? I have posted this before and know one else that uses windows  seams to have this problem exect me. I did call Apple and they did some  research and bumped me up to senior  techs and eventuality Apple told me this is working the way it was  designed to. This is extremely stupid, I need the sequential file names  so the pictures will sort correctly.

I have never found a solution for this.
I did find a Work Around. What I do when I receive a folder full of pictures from another ios iPhone user, I copy all the photos as a batch from the PhotoStream folder into a free Windows program called "FastStone Photo Resizer" from www.FastStone.org. This program allows you to resize the photos as a batch to what ever size you wish. In my case I resize them to 2560 x 1440 which fills my 27" monitor and reduces the file size of each picture from 2MB or 3MB down to about 450 KB without degrading the picture as far as what you see on the screen.
This program will also within the same batch operation, allow you to sort the pictures by "Date Taken" which is the Date and Time the picture was taken. It gets this information from the EXIF data in the jpg file. This program will then rename the files with different numbering format options including date, time, alphanumberic and with just simple numbers starting at what ever number you wish to start with. I can get files that look like this again "IMG_0001.jpg" and have all the pictures in the correct order that they were taken. At this point, I save the pictures directly to a folder on my PC. The cool thing about this is, all the EXIF data is preserved as well. I can process a 100 pictures in less that 60 seconds. I hope this helps. For me, I can now live with this iCloud numbering defect.

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