How to transfer pictures and files from an android phone to a PC using a USB! Works with tablets too

It should be easy to transfer your files and pictures from an Android phone such as a Samsung or Google Pixel to a Windows PC. After all, your phone is just a big storage device anyway, right?!
WRONG!
In order to transfer the files, there are some buttons you need to click on the phone when you plug the device in, but this can be confusing.
Follow my step by step instructions so you can get your valuable photos and files off of your phone to free up some space.
BONUS!
If you wait until the end, you will see a secret setting that allows you to connect your phone much easier so you don't have to remember what to select the next time you connect!

[@creationships]

Thanks Andy life saver.

[@bikeny]

Good info. Thanks. A suggestion for your videos: turn off the music that's playing while you are talking. I don't know if you added it in post or if it was playing on the stereo while you recorded the video, but, as I've asked other YT hosts, please do not have any music playing while narrating. It is distracting to the job at hand: paying attention to what you are doing and saying. Thanks again.

[@Myandybuck]

I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for the advice!

[@creationships]

i thought it was only me

[@user-sy7rv6zm7z]

Sir i only have a regular usb charger cable. Can i use that to transfer the photoes or I would have to buy a usbc?