Brett M,Windows Outreach Team
Would you the the same group who posted here previously misrepresenting themselves as an outreach team from Microsoft?
So you are suggesting that a user purposedly went in to the Regidtry, did an Edit to disallow the shortcut emblem?
Some applications are not fully compatible with the new Superbar in Win7 yet. As such they dont have the option to be pinned to the Superbar and there is nothing that can be done. When you see the unavailable icon (red circle icon) that means that it is not available to pin it.
Tao child: the arrows can be removed using a Registry Edit. However I do not recommend you going into the Registry to do this unless you are familiar with registry settings and do a full backup of the Registry first.