HT201317 how to transfer OLD my photo stream photos from ipad2 to my laptop

I am trying to transfer all of my My Photo Stream photos from my ipad 2 to my windows laptop. A few of them did transfer, but the majority did not. I have seen posts that say this has happened to them, but no direct answer as to why or how to get them ALL to tranfer?? If that for some reason cannot be done, does anyone have any advice as to how to hook up my ipad2 to some type of device and print them off on a printer?? Is that even possible?? My basic problem is I do not want to lose some special photos that are on my photo stream. If I ever update my ipad2 again, it will obviously wipe them all out. Which make absolutely NO SENSE to me. I just want to save my photos somewhere other than icloud, BUT that is where they are stored??? This is exhausting to say the least!!! Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Just to add to my above dilemma...they were initially on my iphone and on my ipad until an update was done on my phone and to my surprise, my backup icloud was not "on" on my phone, BUT it was on my ipad2 so at least they weren't gone FOREVER. I am scared to update ANYTHING on any of my Apple devices for fear of losing what I already have on them. That also makes no sense...but here I am asking anyway.

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