I'm sure this pretty simple but I cannot figure it out.  When Windows
2000 loads it used to load directly to my user profile.  Then I
downloaded microsoft's "critical updates" and it now loads to the
"Administrator" profile.  I have to let this fully load then log off
Administrator and log onto my profile.  It's a small thing but it
drives me nuts.

How do I change Windows 2000 so when the computer is turned on or
restarts instead of Administrator it will load my user profile?  I am
the only person who uses this machine.

I had this same problem with Windows 2000. As far as I can tell
there's no way of solving it from within Windows 2000, so what you
need to do is download a small (free) program called TweakUI, which
you can get here:

http://www.annoyances.org/downloads/ftp/tweakui.zip

It is an official Microsoft product, as this quote from annoyances.org
explains:

"Soon after the introduction of Windows 95, Microsoft got tired of
responding to customer complaints (read "annoyances"), so they
released TweakUI in their collection of "Power Toys." TweakUI has a
little settings window that allows you to fix a few annoyances without
messing around in the Registry."

Download, unzip and install TweakUI. You then access it through
Settings-> Control Panel-> TweakUI.

Click the "Logon" tab, check the "Logon automatically at system
startup" box, and type in the name and password of whatever profile
you want to be logged in under. Problem solved.

If this doesn't work for you (my version of TweakUI isn't the newest,
so the details may have changed), please request a clarification
before rating my answer and I'll be pleased to help.

Hope that solves your problem

jeeagle-ga

thanks

Control Panel -> Users
and then make sure "users must enter a username password" is checked off

Entering the password is not the problem.  The problem is that I use
an user profile other than Administrator.  Before I updated Windows
the computer would automatically load my profile.  Now it loads
Administrator first, it's more of an annoyance than anything but I
want to be able to set it like it was.