Where to begin

I can write simple programs using C++ but I know nothing about windows programming, noting at all. I need some guides about where to begin.

Please give me some advice. Thank you in advance.
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It depends a lot on what you want to do. If you want to do Windows API programming, I suggest the following from MSDN:
Learn to Program for Windows in C++
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381399(v=VS.85).aspx

If that floats you boat, move on to

Programming Windows 5th Edition
Charles Petzold
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Windows-5th-Book-Package/dp/157231995X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296038702&sr=1-1

followed by

Windows via C/C++ 5th Edition
Jeffrey Richter
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Windows-via-PRO-Developer-Jeffrey-Richter/dp/0735624240/ref=pd_sim_b_1

if not , try wxWidgets or the like.
Can you be more specific on what you would like to write? Grey Wolf gave some good answers but depending on how simple of a program you want this site has some great tutorials for basic C++ concepts: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
@Grey Wolf
That's exactly what I want. Thank you very much.

@Computergeek01
Thank you all the same.
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I started it out just like you, now I can write the window creation code out of memory, lol!
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