Missing or blank .exe icon

A similar inquiry was posted in an old post (http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=178926) but does not seem to ever have been answered or solved. I'm running LV 8.6.1 I create and save a custom icon using the Icon Editor in the project environment. I then specify that my custom icon be used instead of the default LabView icon associated with my LV .exe application file. However after I run my application installer (which is successful) I see that my application DOES appear in the Start/Programs/My_Application/... list, but there is no associated icon for the .exe program visible. That's the problem. If I go back to the project and check the box that says Use Default LabView icon then, of course, the default icon does appear. However my custom icon does not. Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? I'm probably doing something wrong. Thanks.

I use 8.6 and this is what I see in my editor.
I have made a version for each of the three options all within the same .ico file. As you can see there are insert and delete buttons so i could create an icon for more or less resolutions. Again, these are all in the same .ico file. And I'm not sure what I would see when it looks for a resolution i didn't supply. It may or may not be invisible. I'm not entirely sure if this is the issue you're having or not.
Message Edited by elset191 on 01-20-2010 09:05 AM
Tim Elsey
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