Raise your hand if it never happened to you to forget a password.
If this password is the one of your PC Admin or of your user this is going to become a big problem...
There is also a chance that, if your machine has no UPS, a power cut may lock you user.
If you do not want to 'refresh' your PC/server by reinstalling the OS a solution may be Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, a tool that may be downloaded from the site http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/.
There you can download the image of a bootable cd that, inserted in the machine where you lost the password / have a user locked, allows you to reset the password or unlock the user.
Obviously it works only on local accounts; no network accounts or active directories.
A piece to have in house, hopefully without using it.
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