You could go further and either ask Turbo C++ for help (if it is a ligit copy) or try a different IDE. I've used Eclipse and am liking it a lot. VERY configurable to use almost any base compiler tools, though has configurations built in for the gnu compiler, I'm sure you could set it up for the Turbo C++ tools.
If you want to move to the gnu compiler, you can download either MinGW's version at
http://www.mingw.org/ or the Cygwin version at
http://www.cygwin.com/. They are fairly good and allow for using managed makefiles which do dependency checking. Very important to keep compilation errors from slowing down your development.
Hope this helps,
Adrian