I recently visited a man who wanted to get the photographs he had taken on his phone on to his PC. He had the correct cable (which is half the battle) but when he plugged his phone on to PC nothing happened.
Now Windows is quite good at recognizing devices when they are plugged in to the PC but mobile phones need to be told that they must connect to the PC.
If you are having this problem find SETTINGS on your mobile phone.
Next find something like CONNECTIVITY
You will probbaly have a couple of options, one of whih might be MASS STORAGE DEVICE or similar and when you have chosen that you will probably be asked to confirm connerction by USB. This might be the other way round on some phones.
You then connect the USB cable abd your PC should say ding-ding and a helpful little window will pop up offering ways in which you can acess the data on your phone.
You can either use one of the media viewers to look at the photos or videos, or a music player to paly wahtever sounds are on your phone.
If you are going to remove the photos from your phone I would rcommend you simply View The Files. This opens up a window that list the foldrs on your phone. One of them will be images and here you can view the images by setting the View to Large Icons and can simply darg and drop the images to wherever you want them on your PC.
If you are unsure where to put them it is best to start with the My Pictures folder that is already on your PC. Just drag the photo to that folder and it will be copied in.
When you are sure the photos have all been copied you can then delete them from yoir phone.