Help, COM+ System Application won't start and basic features now unavailable!!!

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dnbreaks

This is what I did and I know it was stupid. Under Component Services
-> My Computer -> Properties -> COM Security Tab, I hit the Edit Limits
buttons (both of them) and removed all users and groups from the list
boxes. Now everything is messed up in windows and I can't go undo the
change because it says I don't have permissions. I already went
through the process of reinstalling COM+ (rename clbcatq.dll with a ~,
delete the Registration folder, add/remove windows components) but this
gives me an error and doesn't seem to reset the permissions because
things are still not working right and it still gives me the
permissions error when I go back in.

Can anybody tell me what I can do to fix this? I'm on XP SP2. Even if
I have to Repair windows that would be fine at this point I'm just
hoping to avoid a complete reformat and clean install as I have a ton
of stuff on this machine.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Tim
 
Nevermind, I fixed it. Clicking the Computer icon with the tool tip,
"Configure My Computer" allows me to change the permissions back. This

option wasn't on any of the menus only this button.
 
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