How to enable permission to delete iPhone photos from my computer

I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.3. I use a PC. I like to pull pictures of my kids off of my phone and save them on my computer in different files. I plug my phone in via USB, open the folder with the pictures and transfer photo files where I want them to be. Once I've moved it, I right click to delete the original photo in my iPhone folder to remove it from my phone. This is how I've done it for years. Since I've upgraded to the new iOS 8.3, my computer tells me I don't have permission to delete these files out of my iPhone folder. I'm very frustrated and can't find any solutions, and I can't figure out if this is a phone setting or computer setting. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Yes, that is always an option, but not what my issue is. For speed and efficiency of what I'm doing on my computer, I want to be able to delete them as I always have been able to do before iOS 8.3. I'm sure there's a setting somewhere, I just can't find it.
Your issue is, that you updated to iOS 8.3, and that does not allow deleting photos from the iPhone like before.
Even a Mac can no longer delete the photos from the iPhone after the iOS 8.3 update, if iCloud Photo Library has been enabled on the iPhone in the Settings > Photo & Camera. Then you have to delete the Photos in the Photos application to delete them from iCloud.

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