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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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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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You said you typed in *.ascx.* in the Windows search, vs. *.ascx* in the command line. I don't expect the outputs to be identical when the search criteria are different...
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I do like how they added search to a lot of the system screens in 7, like Control Panel, Start Menu etc. but for a serious search, I'd never bother with Windows anyway.
I use SearchEverything for file searches, and FileSeek for file contents search. Both let you use regex instead of just wildcards, and they're surprisingly fast. FileSeek will even let you specify one regex for the filenames, and then another regex to search the contents of that result set. And it's free.
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All the Best Buy stores were sold out, but we tried one more during lunch, and they had just had exactly the one I wanted, returned. So, I got it for 5% off. Better than nothing, I guess.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Christian Graus wrote: they had just had exactly the one I wanted, returned
In literary terms, this is known as "foreshadowing". I can't wait to hear the rest of the story.
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Just wait a couple of days and it'll be a full blown CG saga. I'm thinking it will involve a major conspiracy by six international agencies, numerous businesses, the Illuminati and the Boy Scouts. Obviously there will be exploding helicopters, possibly Bruce Willis will make a cameo and the iPad will turn out to have been hijacked and nuclear launch codes will be stored on it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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I wasn't aware of the Boy Scouts causing Christian any grief. Is there a good story there?
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They are the driving force behind Telstra.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Not recently, my boyhood is another story.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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