Why does the Win32-API have so many custom types?

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I'm new to the Win32 API and the many new types begin to confuse me.

Some functions take 1-2 ints and 3 UINTS as arguments.

Why can't they just use ints? What are UINTS?

Then, there are those other types:

DWORD LPCWSTR LPBOOL

Again, I think the "primitive" C types would be enough - why introduce 100 new types?

This one was a pain: WCHAR*

I had to iterate through it and push_back every character to an std::string as there wasn't another way to convert it to one. Horrible.

Why WCHAR? Why reinvent the wheel? They could have just used char* instead, or?

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