Where to learn the ins and outs of the computer itself

I'm learning to hack following the tryhackme courses and learning some programming languages.

Things I've dabbled in our Python and assembly and I'm going to start using C once I a pretty good handle on assembly.

A lot of the online courses are focused on learning particular tools like Wireshark or Nano Etc..

However not a lot of it seems to be geared to actually learning the ins and outs of the computer itself.

Part of the problem though is that these skills really only unlock the ability to interact with the computer at a deeper level but they're parasitic upon you knowing how the computer works.

For example I asked Claude to generate a key logger so I can study it the key logger uses getmessageA, translatemessageA, dispatchmessageA.

Now this is apparently the windows API and my ability to code assembly is often contingent on this API and it's preformatted demands.

Now you can go to the documentation the problem is the documentation often opaque.

Where can I go to find a in-depth guide on the Windows API and what other auxiliary knowledge should I have

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