Ok, so I started with the C88 standard; so I would suggest to grab your nuts, get off windows, install linux, use what ever text editor you find you enjoy. I like gedit, cause it's simple, and has a very wide variety of code highlighting, and learn to compile with GNU compiler (gcc,g++), it's simple to switch from C/C++, to fortran, or what ever language you wanna go with...
If you are going to code C or C++ on a microshit system, or IDE; you have just cut your program's speed by about 60%, and increased the probability of vulnerable code by about 180%.