COM Beginer

Can someone direct me to some beginer Web tutorials and articles for ComponentObjectModel.

It is possible to make shortcuts and save bitmaps(bmp) files without using COM beacause some of the examples I've seen are pretty confusing looking with all the pointers and how COM is implemented and the like...

Thanks in advance...

Here is a function to create a shortcut.

Thank you...
But I want to understand it i.e, either learn COM or Something to substitute It. If you give me ready-made code I will just lazily use it and I'm quite lazy...

I'll try learning backwards from your code ;)