How to return to default user start-up for Explorer?

[Jay M Apple]

[Using Win2K, SP 4 on Dell Dimension 8100, Nero Burning ROM vs 7 and
Mutilate File Wiper 2.92]

The default start up for Explorer is a window highlighting
:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu

PROBLEM: Got tired of getting verify errors after backing up of files-in-use
in
:\Documents and Settings\admin-username\...
when using Nero app mentioned above (not Nero BackItUp).

SO,,, while in a stupor late at night, I had the apparently not so bright
idea to copy the entire \Documents and Settings\... subfolders and files to
a directory called \BACKUP. The intention was that files in \BACKUP would
not be in-use and could therefore be backed up and verified.

I was operating as an administrator-equivalent user and the following were
event highlights in the process

1) while copying got an eror message about admin-username system file
NTUSER.DAT, but blew past it.
2) did the Nero backup
3) felt frugal about disk space and wiped clean the \BACKUP directory.

As a result couldn't later start Explorer as the Start Menu (for the
administrator-equivalent user) could not be found in \Backup\...

SOooo... Copied the Start Menu from the original
:\Documents and Settings\admin-username\Start Menu

AND NOW... Explorer opens highlighting
\BACKUP\Documents and Settings\admin-username\Start Menu

For regular users Explorer opens normally.

How do I go back to the normal default start for admin-username?

THANKS

Jay
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[Jay M Apple]

[Using Win2K, SP 4 on Dell Dimension 8100, Nero Burning ROM vs 7 and
Mutilate File Wiper 2.92]

The default start up for Explorer is a window highlighting
:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu

PROBLEM: Got tired of getting verify errors after backing up of files-in-use
in
:\Documents and Settings\admin-username\...
when using Nero app mentioned above (not Nero BackItUp).

Resorted to editing every entry in the registry with value of
\BACKUP\..etc.. to
\Documents and Settings\.. etc.

Jay