>I'm trying to establish a combobox that shows available printers from the Window's print manager and allows the user to select one.
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>Some of the printers are network printers and show the name in the UNC syntax of \\servername\printer. Problem is, the combobox strips off the first "\" and grays out the printer, not allowing it to be selected.
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>Any idea how I can do this?

Add a blank before it, and remove it once you get to use it.