I have no direct experience of this problem but doing a search produces the following titbits of 'info'. Whether they are genuine solutions I do not know. As always Caveat Emptor and please do some more research before applying them.
Background HP Image Editor task installed by the drivers for the HP OfficeJet K60 & G85 (hpoevm07) and HP PSC 2100 & 2200 (hpoevm08) series of multifunction printers.
Recommendation :
This task is bad press for HP. Almost all Windows 2000/XP users who install an HP PSC 2100 or 2200 series printer immediately complain of their PCs having become extremely slow and of "HPOEVM07.exe is not responding" or "HPOEVM08.exe is not responding" errors on shutdown. HP have issued a fix for it for HPOEVM08 which, strangely enough, is actually on the CD that your printer comes with, but it does not get installed automatically (that’s plain silly!). To install the fix drill down to the Util\CCC\ImageEditor folder on the software CD and copy the file HPQVWR08.EXE from that CD folder to the following folder on your C: drive : "C: \ Program Files \ Hewlett-Packard \ Digital Imaging \ Bin". Then reboot.
The quote above is taken from:
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...tasklist_h.htm
However you might also want to consider this from HP:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=buu00684&cc=uk&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=r eg_R1002_UKEN
and
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...reg_R1002_UKEN
and
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...reg_R1002_UKEN