diff --git a/DNN Platform/Library/Services/FileSystem/FolderManager.cs b/DNN Platform/Library/Services/FileSystem/FolderManager.cs
index ded6cc7c30c..2f6a2b40d43 100644
--- a/DNN Platform/Library/Services/FileSystem/FolderManager.cs	
+++ b/DNN Platform/Library/Services/FileSystem/FolderManager.cs	
@@ -1845,11 +1845,11 @@ private static Regex WildcardToRegex(string pattern)
         {
             if (!pattern.Contains("*") && !pattern.Contains("?"))
             {
-                pattern = "^" + pattern + ".*$";
+                pattern = ".*" + Regex.Escape(pattern) + ".*";
             }
             else
             {
-                pattern = "^" + Regex.Escape(pattern).Replace(@"\*", ".*").Replace(@"\?", ".") + "$";
+                pattern = Regex.Escape(pattern).Replace(@"\*", ".*").Replace(@"\?", ".");
             }
 
             return RegexUtils.GetCachedRegex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
diff --git a/DNN Platform/Modules/ResourceManager/Components/SearchController.cs b/DNN Platform/Modules/ResourceManager/Components/SearchController.cs
index 3a66f90ffc6..6fdb222c104 100644
--- a/DNN Platform/Modules/ResourceManager/Components/SearchController.cs	
+++ b/DNN Platform/Modules/ResourceManager/Components/SearchController.cs	
@@ -34,11 +34,7 @@ public IList<IFileInfo> SearchFolderContent(int moduleId, IFolderInfo folder, bo
 
             search = (search ?? string.Empty).Trim();
 
-            // Lucene does not support wildcards as the beginning of the search
-            // For file names we can remove any existing wildcard at the beginning
-            var cleanedKeywords = TrimStartWildCards(search);
-
-            var files = FolderManager.Instance.SearchFiles(folder, cleanedKeywords, recursive);
+            var files = FolderManager.Instance.SearchFiles(folder, search, recursive);
             var sortProperties = SortProperties.Parse(sorting);
             var sortedFiles = SortFiles(files, sortProperties).ToList();
             totalCount = sortedFiles.Count;
@@ -46,14 +42,6 @@ public IList<IFileInfo> SearchFolderContent(int moduleId, IFolderInfo folder, bo
             return sortedFiles.Skip((pageIndex - 1) * pageSize).Take(pageSize).ToList();
         }
 
-        private static string TrimStartWildCards(string search)
-        {
-            var keywords = from keyword in search.Split(' ')
-                           select keyword.TrimStart('*', '?');
-            search = string.Join(" ", keywords);
-            return search;
-        }
-
         private static IEnumerable<IFileInfo> SortFiles(IEnumerable<IFileInfo> files, SortProperties sortProperties)
         {
             switch (sortProperties.Column)
diff --git a/DNN Platform/Modules/ResourceManager/ResourceManager.Web/app/less/components.less b/DNN Platform/Modules/ResourceManager/ResourceManager.Web/app/less/components.less
index 71c1a1e1229..2643b6ffdef 100644
--- a/DNN Platform/Modules/ResourceManager/ResourceManager.Web/app/less/components.less	
+++ b/DNN Platform/Modules/ResourceManager/ResourceManager.Web/app/less/components.less	
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
         margin: 0px;
         list-style: none;
         box-sizing: border-box;
-        height: 28px;
     }
 }