How to transfer photos from curve 9300 to pc in a Vista OS

How do I transfer photos taken by my Blackberry Curve 9300 to my pc, which uses a Vista OS?  With the Blackberry Desktop software I synchronized the data and I backed up the phone, but I cannot find the photos on the pc.  The backup files cannot be opened, but some websites claim to sell software which would allow me to open the backup files. 
I also tried to access the phone's photos through the pc's control panel, but the control panel does not allow access to this drive.  It shows that a device is connected, but I cannot access it. 
Thanks in advance.

Hi and Welcome to the Community!
Vista is a cranky beast...like every other OS from MS, it was quite flawed IMHO, and hence had a very short lifespan.
For the backup, indeed you are correct that the file is of a proprietary format...this is by design. 3rd party PC apps do indeed exist to try and parse it out to a "human usable" format, but quite often photos aren't even included in the backup, so doing so would be of no value anyway. Please refer to the "backup" link in my auto sig on this post for best practices regarding backups.
The best way to obtain these files (photos are simply computer files, after all) is to use Mass Storage Mode. Refer:
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Desktop-Software-for-PC/HOWTO-use-your-blackberry-as-a-USB-de...
KB11879 What is mass storage mode
KB13564 How to enable or disable mass storage mode on the BlackBerry smartphone.
KB23450 Copy documents to a BlackBerry smartphone using Mass Storage Mode
KB18475 BlackBerry Storm smartphone is not detected by BlackBerry Desktop Manager in Windows Vista when mass storage mode is enabled
KB29523 How to manually transfer files between a BlackBerry smartphone and a Windows computer
There may be other useful KBs...you can, of course, search the KB database just as well as I can for you.
Do keep in mind that Vista is wonky...there are situations where functionality via Vista just doesn't work, but it's a fault of Vista rather than anything else. It's also possible that your version of the Desktop Software is not the most recent...but you've not revealed that, so all I can do is point you to the download location for the most recent:
http://us.blackberry.com/software/desktop.html
Good luck and let us know!
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