Applications Don't Show Up in Spotlight

1. Go to System Preferences, Select Spotlight
2. Go to the Privacy tab in the Spotlight system preferences
3. Click the "+" button
4. Press Shift-Command-C to reveal your hard drives (if they are not available otherwise), or simply navigate to your hard drive (most likely MacintoshHD)
5. If you have more than one hard drive, hold the Command key and click your various drives to add them to your selection
6. Click the “Choose” button to add them to the Privacy list
7. Ignore the warning.
8. Remove the hard drive by clicking the "-" sign.
9. Have a nice day :)