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.