local admin password

Please can anyone help. I have taken a computer out of
our domain. I then went to log on as the local admin but
the realised my predessor hadn't used the same password.
I don't know what the local admin has been set to and i
now can't log on to the compuer at all. Does anyone know
who i can reset the password without actually having to
log on. I don't want to have to reinstall Windows as i
will lose a lot of work?
Thank you

Your only options are:

1) Reset the password via other sources

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/editor.html

2) Create a dual boot of Win XP on the machine and "Take Ownership" of the files/folders you need to recover

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"Laura" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9f6801c4792c$0a202fe0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Please can anyone help. I have taken a computer out of
> our domain. I then went to log on as the local admin but
> the realised my predessor hadn't used the same password.
> I don't know what the local admin has been set to and i
> now can't log on to the compuer at all. Does anyone know
> who i can reset the password without actually having to
> log on. I don't want to have to reinstall Windows as i
> will lose a lot of work?
> Thank you