1. A system, comprising: one or more processing units; and a plurality of components, each of which is executed by at least one of the one or more processing units, the plurality of components comprising: a reference component configured to access a set of metadata correlated with user interface controls for configuring user-customizable options or preference settings of a computer application being executed; an indexing component configured to distinguish respective subsets of the set of metadata that are associated with respective ones of the user interface controls; and a searching component configured to receive a set of search data input by a user of the executing computer application, compare the set of search data with the subsets of the set of metadata, and identify a matching subset of metadata that satisfies a condition pertaining to the search data defined by a function, the search data input being received from the user via an interface of the computer application being executed.