Win2000 no longer boots to me but Administrator instead

[Muse]

This is my home machine and it always booted to me. I'm in the Administrator's Group. I posted in the Software, etc. Forum yesterday asking what I could do to change the default save-to location from My Documents for Internet Explorer 6.0. That thread is here.

I was informed that I should change my Local Path:

"Under your user account properties change the location of your local path. Thereafter any application that would normally default to your user directory will go there instead."

Not sure how, I went to Users and Passwords in Control Panel, Advanced, Advanced User Administration, Advanced button, Users folder, Right-clicked myself and picked Properties, clicked the Profile tab and and under Home Folder, entered a value for Local Path (which had been blank). I entered E:\. However, it didn't seem to fix the problem I had so I went back in and blanked out that field again (removed E:\).

Something funny happened a bit later - I couldn't make the VPN connection to my client, but I assumed it was a problem on their end. I turned off my machine and a few hours later rebooted. This time it booted to the Administrator's account. I logged off the Administrator, logged onto my account and tried to make my VPN connection, which failed again. My contact at my client site tells me that they checked their VPN setup and it works for other people. I rebooted and again it booted to the Administrator.

My question, I guess, is how I again make my machine boot to my account. I don't want to have to log off the Administrator every time I turn on my machine. The VPN problem, well I don't know what to think about that at this point. Thanks for any help.

 

[Muse]

I found this in my own W2K help file:

How to log onto yourself instead of as administrator in Win2000 -- 12/30/2002, 07/25/2003
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When you uncheck - users must login to this computer in Users and Passwords, a dialog opens and you enter username and PW. If it says Administrator, erase this and put yourself in!



I've had this happen to me before, obviously.

Edit: Thing is, this wasn't happening! However, after messing around with it for 10 minutes, it did. I have no idea why, but I'll leave well enough alone since the dialog finally did pop up.