Why can't I click on spotlight on the desktop sometimes?

ometimes, since i uppdated to mavericks, i cant click on spotlight on the list on the desktop. I have to restart computer to make it work again. When i try to click the little reading-glass i get this "wrong" sound. Someone knows how to fix it?

Are you clicking in a Finder window or the reading glass in the upper right hand corner of the menu bar?
If Finder, go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by logging out/in and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it  from, overwriting the newer ones.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
You might need to redo the View settings after an update.

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