Controlling system resources with C++

I am a beginner C++ programmer and would like to know how to control system resources like color, creating GUIs and handling mouse input without already established libraries like MFC etc.
From Brads "Teach Your self Advanced C in 21 days", I know that interrupts work in C using BIOS. Does that work in C++ too.
Thanks for your assistance.

What ever the code which works in C will also work in C++
do NOT forget that C++ is upward compatible with C

along with this you can control IO resource more effectively in C++ refer the structure/hierarchy of iostream in C++, you will get more info ...