Since upgrading to Mavericks I can't click and drag or unlock to make changes.

As the title says, I upgraded to Mavericks, and since then, I haven't been able to click and drag anything from my desktop / finder etc. I can however drag windows around. I've check in the accessabiltiies options for the drag locking and that is set how it should be, but still hasn't fixed anythi
I also read that people had similar problems and tried a few of the fixes like force it to sleep and wake up. That didn't work, I also was going to make a new user, however it appears I am unable to unlock the lock in the bottom left. It blinks but doesnt unlock to make changes
Anyone have any similar issues? I'd appreciate any help

I just got a new rMBP with Mavericks pre-installed (unfortunately) and this is my first day using it. I've had this same issue. The only thing that solved it was to restart finder by using an automator that showed (and hid) hidden files.
I actually clicked the automator so I could easily drill down to the plist files so I could try deleting my old ones, but as soon as my desktop (and finder windows) came back up, I was able to click and drag again! I assume it was because I restarted the process that runs finder.
This is obviously a bug in the OS somewhere, but at least this was a very quick fix to the issue for me. (Even if it's one I'll have to keep using as I have the problem resurface).

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