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Does it work if you surround the search criteria in quotes: "*.ascx*" ?
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It does, but you'd better prefix it with name:, otherwise it will also search content.
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Sound advice for a happier search experience!
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Nope. No results at all with the quotes.
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Weird. Worked for me.
Actually, it doesn't bloody work for me at all. That's having interpreted what you wrote and what you actually meant, of course.
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Apparently it needs to be indexed. Leave it to MS to require jumping through a hoop that's been set on fire in order to do something as common as searching for files.
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That looks handy, though I'm philosophically opposed to installing a utility just so I can search the file system. I may get over that objection, but geez! And they wonder why everyone hated Vista, or anything that smelled like it!
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Once you dump Windows Explorer, the rest is easy.
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Yeah I think the same way. Especially since I'm guessing there's loads of overhead in the background to do all this indexing etc and it's a shame if it's not even going to be used.
I guess there's some way to switch it off though - it was indexing service in earlier versions of windows, plus that stupid find fast thing that office insisted on installing even when you told it not to in the setup. Might have changed now.
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All right folks, let's not leave you all in the dark: RTFM![^] 
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Not to appear dense (though that may be unavoidable), but I'm not seeing a solution in the FM.
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May I have misguided you a bit  (didn't read the FM myself). Syntax would be for example for finding all files with the (old dos syntax) *.bat* -> filename:*.bat*
By the same token filename:???.bat will find all three-letter batch files.
Quotes are not really needed, except when keywords would appear in the search string.
I used to use name:, but filename: does not give me extraneous results.
Works fine on my system!
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Obviously, you failed to enter the query properly. You need to use the new Microsoft Search dialect, that has been greatly improved, with more features and power through its simplified search syntax. So all you had to type was ...
Kind:Any Subject:Any Contains:Everything Author:Christopher Duncan || Lord Vader Date:> Today - Yesterday + Tomorrow * 356 - 12 + 1 Folders: All
I mean really. Get with the program.
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I've got blisters on my fingers!
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did you use appropriate technology to search the FM? e.g. did you index it?
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I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
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A whole effing sparse B-Tree
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I was thinking of borrowing Christian's iPad. Maybe that's a technology that would work.
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Have you tried leaving the star out, i.e.:
.ascx
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How about just .ascx? I think Windows now "pseudo"-includes the wildcards at the start and end. It appears to just run a string.Contains method on the filename...
Works on my machine.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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I'm a dinosaur too; I search in a DOSbox. I didn't install Search and I know I've uninstalled it in the past. I certainly don't "index" my drives. 
I grew up with (Open)VMS so I'm used to good wildcards in directories. DOS was hosed, WinXP is a little better, but not much.
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It's not a file-name search. It can search file-names, but it can also search attributes and content, and as others have noted you can trigger file-name searching by using certain operators, but if you leave them out then... it guesses.
Note that "ascx", "*.ascx.*", and "name:*.ascx" (without quotes) should all give you what you're after...
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IMHO search is broken since Windows XP SP2!
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Hmmmm....although I too am a dinosaur, my Win 7 machine finds all the .ascx files in my libraries in just a couple of milliseconds...simply by typing *.ascx in the search window. Typing *.as? finds all the .aspx, .asmx, and .asax files just like it should with the "?" wildcard.
The difference in my results vs yours is possibly because I do have indexing enabled. I've not noticed any performance hit from enabling indexing on this machine though I certainly noticed it on my old XP box. I'm not sure if it's because Win 7's indexing is more efficient than XP's or because this machine has a fairly fast I7-860 CPU with eight logical cores.
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