Short cut change icon is disabled and icons are generic

(I am not sure if this is correct forum, I don't know if this is for Visual Studio Setup Installation projects or for Installing Visual Studio itself)
I've created a Setup/Installation project for a WPF .NET 4.5.2 application and everything works fine with the exception of the program Icons.
After I run the Setup - the short cut on the Desktop and Start menu (Win 7 and Win 8.1) shows generic Icon and when I right click and select properties the Open File Location and the Change Icon buttons are disabled, but if I click on the short cut it runs
the program.
In the Setup project I specified which icon to use from the exe program and I even added an icon do the project and pointed to this icon, but the icons still show up as generic.
Any advise on how to fix this?
Thank You
Peter

Hi pczurak,
By reseraching, I found this thread in StackOverFlow has the same issue with you.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2041291/how-to-change-windows-applicatoins-default-icon-in-setup-project?answertab=active#tab-top
From the answer, we could show up the desired icon in the following way.
right-click on the Deployment Project
pick menu item View > File System
in the File System window, find the shortuct whose icon you want to change (for example, under "Users's Programs Menu")
go to the shortcut Properties (right-click and pick "Properties Window")
go to Icon
Browse...
change "Files of type" to *.exe
browse to and select your "primary output"
OK, OK
And you could also change the icon in the Control Panel's "Add or Remove Programs" list.
If you have any other concern regarding this issue, please feel free to let me know.
Best regards,
Youjun Tang
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