What and Where to download

Hi all, I have been away from programming for a while - I used to use 
Borland TC++ which was a DOS program.  I would like to download a compiler

but frankly it is very confusing to me.  TC++ was a floppy-based program 
that I installed and ran - everything was there for me.  What I need to
know 
is what is a good  compiler that I can download for free (Dev C++?) and
how 
do I get it up and running.  Any suggestions would be great.  If this is
not 
the correct newsgroup, then please point me in the right direction. 
Thanks.