[Nickster]

That's a good question, I've never had to use one on XP before. Prior to that passwords were cake to strip/reset.

There are lots of tool out there that can "supposidly" do it, most of them want you to pay (one way or the other) $40 or wait 3 days after you send the encrypted password file to them.

Don't know about you but I wouldn't use the second one. No telling what all they may be collecting from your computer.

I take the it the Offline Tool linked in an earlier post didn't work?

Did you try using Admin or Administrator as the password? Is a common thing to do if someone else setup the computer for you.

Reset Admin Password XP - Google Search here's a search list if you feel like browsing, read all the way down cause lots of them have catches that get you 95% of the way interested then tell you they want money.

Good Luck,
Nick