If you're dead set on not going the .NET route, then like everyone else said, search for some tutorials on Win32/MFC, but prepare to get really frustrated, that stuff is a pain to learn. The reason you're finding a lot of old C code is because a lot of that stuff is really old and was originally written in C. But don't worry about it, C and C++ are pretty much one and the same.
If you're willing to go the .NET route, but don't want C#, you can still do all that stuff in Visual C++, but be prepared to have most of the documentation you read be in Visual Basic or C#.
My recommendation would be to learn .NET. Your choice of language won't even matter. You'll be able to make the GUI applications you want in a fraction of the time. If you're looking at job prospects, far more new .NET jobs are being created than Win32/MFC jobs.
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