Spotlight not working?

[Sweener88]

Im haveing a wierd problem, whenever i click the spotlight icon a blue square goes around it but no search box pops down......is there some wierd way iv disabled it?

 

[laidbackliam]

when you click the button, try typing something and press enter.

try logging out and logging back in. that generally works for me when spotlight or anything else stops working

 

[mad jew]

Maybe post a screenshot of what you're getting instead of Spotlight.

 

[cb31]

Im haveing a wierd problem, whenever i click the spotlight icon a blue square goes around it but no search box pops down......is there some wierd way iv disabled it?

I am now getting exactly the same thing!

If I do commmand-space the blue square around the icon appears with a slight shadow on the far left of the screen under the blue apple. If I type anything nothing happens. If I do option-command-space the spotlight window appears and works fine. What is going on?

 

[mad jew]

Do you have any third party items in the Menu Bar? Press COMMAND-SHIFT-3 to take a screenshot because that might help us.

 

[Razorhog]

Same thing happened to me yesterday. I restarted and it works fine now.

 

[cb31]

I've fixed it by changing my screen resolution and then put it back to normal again.