Thank you!
I took your advice on temporarily turning off the Shared Folders and then turning them back on...that did the trick.
Steps I took:
- Went to the menu Virtual Machine>Settings...
- When the Settings window appeared, I clicked on Sharing.
- Flipped the Shared Folders switch to off.
- As soon as I did that a windows pop-up appeared telling me that I would need to log off for the changes to take affect. I did that.
- After logging back in Windows Explorer worked normally.
- I then went back into Virtual Machine>Settings>Sharing and flipped the switch back to on.
- Logged out and back in again...and Windows Explorer worked normally and I could access the shared folders.
Thanks again