Spotlight no longer working

I've turned on my Mac this morning and Spotlight no longer works. The keyboard shortcut is doing absolutely nothing.

I've checked in the system preferences and it is enabled. I've checked the keyboard shortcut in the keyboard preferences (that shouldn't have changed overnight!). I've rebooted my Mac.

The only thing I can possibly think of is I installed Onxy last night, and don't remember trying Spotlight since then. I've checked Onxy but cant find any way I could have disabled Spotlight.

Is Spotlight available in the Menu Bar (magnifying glass image which open Spotlight Search)?

It wasn't, but then I enabled the icon in the menu bar and it's now working agin. Is there any way of hiding the icon without disabling it?

It seems no as it is part of the System Software not controlled by such a switch in System preferences, such as Bluetooth, Network etc. Just ignore it if it bothers you that much imfromwales but really from Christchurch NZ.

Big Anzac Day Service in Christchurch this morning?

I'll have to ignore it then

I think there was, a work colleague went to the dawn service, but I was fast asleep! I'm actually from England, which is ironic due to the username, and the fact i'm living in NZ!