Looking for more info on c++

I've spent a bit of time messing in c++, working on expanding my knowledge of the language now I've finished at uni. I wrote a bit of a windows program, then started a new project in two different IDEs and compiled them. The compiled programs then behaved differently.

There's evidently something else going on under the lid, but I've never encountered anything about these things in books on coding c++ and such. Is there any good tutorials or just general documentation that explains things in more depth?

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I'm not looking for an ultimate do everything language, and I'm not looking to learn a new language from the ground up. I'm trying to learn how to make programs make use of the features of Windows and eventually other OSes, such as Making multiple threads and event-driven programing. The primary way of doing this seems to be through the Windows API. This appears to be best documented and most reliably implemented in c/c++, but I've reached a stage where a program I've written compiles under the compilers of different IDEs into two programs that behave differently. Thus I suspect there's ore to these things than just the .cpp and .h files, but there seems to be very little documenting it.

Failing that, another language that isn't too wasteful and can work with Windows would be good. There seem to be some languages out there with APIs made by third parties, but I've no idea how in-depth these things are, and I was hoping you people might know what a good one is.