From the Help file on ComboBox:

An item in a ComboBox control can be disabled by placing a backslash (\) before the item. If the item begins with a backslash and should not be disabled, add an additional backslash.

I think if you add an additional backslash it should give you what you want.

>Code like this used to work before in VFP6:
> .AddItem(" \\PRINTSERVER\HP")
>Combobox showed " \\PRINTSERVER\HP"
>After the new year it stores the printer name
>as " \PRINTSERVER\HP". The first "\" is gone.
>Hence the "Error accessing printer spooler".
>Happens on NT.
>
>Does anybody know what's going on?