WinXP password recovery

[Scorcher2005]

i have 2 accounts on my XP box, 1 of which is the only admin account.  i lost the admin pass and need to recover it.  what can i do besides formatting and reinstall?

[psyjax]

Not sure if this will work. But in another thread they were discussing a similar issue using Win2k, considering that XP is a modified NT kernel I would suppose the same vulnrability exists:

http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000050

Do yourself a favor and dump XP after you get what you need out of the computer. If your gonna use windows, at least het NT or 2000.