Transfer shared Photo Stream photos to PC

Hello,
I have searched the forums and cannot find this.
I have an ipad mini running the latest software.
In my Photo stream tab on the album app I have 3 folders:
My Photo Stream
Canada (shared by my mother)
North America Tour (shared by me)
Is there a way I can get these photos on my PC without using 3rd party software or having to manually copy all the Photostream photos to my camera roll?
Thank you,
Andy

Yes, you have to save them to your camera roll first. It may be because while the photos are in the shared photo stream album, the owner of shared photo stream can add or delete photos at any time, as well as deleting the entire shared photo stream and at the present time, the iOS is not able to make the necessary changes to your albums in the event of such changes.

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