TechRepublic Questions of the Week - September 8, 2009

With the help from the TechRepublic community, we've compiled a list of questions from last week that had great answers and/or large appeal. If you want to submit your favorite Question of the Week, using those guidelines as criteria, please send them to trol@techrepublic.com.

We received a couple questions from TechRepublic members that we'd like to feature in this post. Please explain your answer(s) in the discussion thread.

Please compare various network device monitoring tools — such as Monolith and SolarWinds — with Cisco Works LMS3.0 in the following areas:

• Device management
• Configuration management
• Log management
• Device monitoring

Is there a simple way to do mouseovers (or rollovers) on photographs and graphics? Somebody once sent me a picture that would display the person’s name when you moved the mouse cursor over the subject in the picture. I could see where this could be a very useful feature without cluttering up the photograph or graphic. I haven’t been able to find an easy way to do this.

Here are some additional questions from last week:

• Vista printing problem
• IMPOSSIBLE: Cisco switch: how to give a device this IP
• MS Word/Outlook Errors
• Ndis.sys error due to virus - can't boot Windows
• Mozilla Quality Feedback
• VPN at home with WBR-1310 DLink
• Free web based work order system?
• Problem downgrading from Vista to XP
• Machine Check Event reported is a corrected error
• Network Printer problem
• BTX Motherboard won't boot to CD / DVD
• Small home based computer support company looking to grow
• Office 2007 offline?