Access to a shared folder hard blocks VMWare Fusion (started happening recently)

I have access to my Mac OS X desktop as a folder within my VM and have it run this way for years without problem. Sometimes in the past month, VMWare has started completely freeze/lock up when I try to open the desktop folder in Win7 or if I try to open a file from an application running in Windows. I get no error message, just a Beachball Of Death, and VMWare will eventually (or not) report that Windows crashed and offer to reboot. Sometimes I have to force quit (and kill several VMWare process) until I can restart.

If I restart in Mode safe, I can open/read/write files very well. I can also 'mirror' of my office (instead of share) and it works very well in this way, too, but this approach is not practical as I have so more can see my normal within Windows desktop, as it is replaced by all the files from my Mac desktop,

I couldn't find all the online articles that were useful for the resolution of this problem, and it's impacting on my ability to do my job.

Again, this has been working fine until recently. As El Capitan has been recently updated and VWWare Fusion has been recently updated Windows gets patches every week, I'm not sure which, if any, of those that could have caused the problem.

Suggestions welcome.

Here is my configuration:

MBP 15 retina, mid 2015 running OS X 10.11.5

16 GB of RAM (8GB assigned to Windows)

500 GB SSD 120 GB assigned to Windows

Win7 Pro 64-bit

VMWare 8.1.1 (3771013)

I tried re('repair') VMware Tools installation, but do not uninstall first. Just did the full cycle of uninstall/install and it is always difficult pop-up Windows (no BSD, just freezes and VWware with it). Process of the merger of VMware and vmware-vmx to hang (as shown in activity monitor).

This is * only * happening if I share my desktop Mac computer. If I share any file, it works fine. Yet once, it only started recently.

UPDATE

Playing a hunch, I removed an alias (which points to a file on a network drive) in my office that I created recently (I had other aliases on my desk for several months, but none of them did for the network drives), and it now seems to work very well. What's weird is that I initially put crime aliases in a subfolder Desktop and VMware has worked well until I drove my cursor arrow on the subfolder (do not click to open it), when it crashed again. I put the back on my desktop and the "boom" alias, crashed almost immediately, which seems to confirm that the alias is the problem.

Windows does make a kind of prediction "read-ahead" as you move your cursor and hovering over the records?

In any case, the trigger seems to be an alias that points to a network drive, that hard to block Windows / VMware.

Bug?

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