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Process name: HP Digital Imaging Monitor or HP Digital Imaging Monitor (CUE)
Product: hp digital imaging - hp all-in-one series or HP Image Zone or HP Photo & Imaging or HP Photosmart Premier or HP Driver Diagnostics or TrayApp
Company: Hewlett-Packard Co (www.hp.com) or Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P
File: hpqtra08.exe


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Users Opinions

690 users ask for this file. 10 users didn't rate it ("don't know"). 16 users rated it as not dangerous. 8 users rated it as not so dangerous. 15 users rated it as neutral. 11 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 8 users rated it as dangerous.


All comments about hpqtra08.exe:
Part o HP All in one series package
Ghostmkr This is a non-essential process. Disabling or enabling this is down to user preference
John V. This is a driver for the HP all-in-one printer.
ass its for hp machines
Lapalissiano Non essential
DzNutzz tray icon. dont want icon at startup then disable it
Phil have a HP all-in-one imaging device
John it won't delete
Fergus This is a legitimate system file for HP. It monitors a HP scanner
Jon W. Installed with my HP PhotoSmart 3310 All-in-One, this program uses 99% CPU for 15+ minutes straight on startup.
MK It interferes with a wide variety of 3rd party software (from screen readers to ActiveSync)
Glen Broderick hpqtra08.exe is a pain. It constantly crashes in the background makeing it hard to exit windows. HP has a utility for disabling it for many printers. It didn't cover my printer. I think HP should ask before forcing software like this on us.
pauljs75 HP All In One diagnostics. It may send some computer info back to HP. (Triggers some firewall/spyware notices.) Non-essential. Provides tray icon for user access to printer features, as said above.  See also: Link
Alaric Had problems with CPU usage alternating between 0-60%. Ended the process on this file and eliminated the problem.
Kefka Can causes lots of hard drive activity while running...
chris this slows the computer down considerably, although it is not malicious. it is not nesessary for printing.
its needed for the functionkeys on hp All in One Printer
Gerri Installs with your hp printer/scanner -- when I installed it with my hpDeskjet F335 all-in-one it slowed my computer to a crawl
Bob Jung I appeared after I installed the drives for my HP wireless printer at home. When I am not at home, I sometimes see evidence that this exe has trouble stopping when I shutdown my PC and once got an error that this exe had problems and aborted. I have been going into task manager and killing this process when I won't be using the printer.
Nils Mĺsén Used up all processor power and froze my clients computer. Came with his HP Printer drivers.
Bry it ties up my processor by 98% for no reason even if my HP printer scanner is off.
swazzy it actually didnt do much to my pc at all. but it helps my ping on games :)
Dave Myers Installed as part of the drivers for my HP all-in-one 7400 series
Bruce For 8 month TrayApp want's to install at startup and can't find the file windows installer goes mad over it. Lately has come up as HP Document viewer, I located a file TrayApp deleted it no change. It even tries to install when I use other pograms. Security Task Manager mite help get rid of it
Clancy Hp all-in-one printer software - according to ms bugtrace, it is the cause of constant full black screen crashes in my system
geekno9 Part of HP Photosmart All-In-One printer software pkg. It is involved in automatically launching software to receive a scanned document sent to the computer via the printer front panel buttons.
Gary Pain the neck - continuously halts shutdown of XP
Zzzzack HP Process File
Steve G-E hpqtra08.exe was a mega pain. After many many weeks of my HP Laptop freezing after 3-4 hours whether I did anything or not, I fixed the problem by quarantining this file. Now my laptop is running continuously with no problems at all. I have only shut it down once in the last 60 hours. What a relief.
Tomcat I have run into the issue of hpqtra08.exe running and not knowing it. I use Task Manager - Processes window to view the CPU usage. this bugger will lock up your CPU at 100%. I just 'end process' and the computer begins working well again.
GV This is an important component of HP AiO Program. If you disable this program, HP AiO can't see computer.
zwoggl trouble when shutting-down Windows XP
Jason A. On Vista 64, just noticed that it started using between 0-35% of my Pentium Extreme Edition (840) CPU. This behavior seemed to occur after I installed MS Office 2007!
Ernst It creates humongous numbers of ver###.tmp files in ...%user%\AppData\Local\Temp under Windows Vista Home Premium. The files are created at the rate of approx. one every three seconds. I deleted (with difficulty) ~36,000 files, disabled hpqtra08.exe and the problem disappeared.
Ed This file, self executing, causes PC instablity. Search and find the file on the computer, then open task master, kill the damn thing on task master, then erase the file that "Search" found. It is not necessary for printing. It is a recent download
Liam Roche It uses huge amount of CPU time on my new Vista PC. Filesize 210520 bytes
Randy It tries up my precessor by 98 percent
iLOVEspam As far as I can tell, it's an executable file used to launch HP Installation Package for a periphrial device. This file is setup to lauch upon boot. If you are being bothered by this error message every time you boot, you can easily disable the executable by altering the Startup Items for the computer. Start Run. In the Run box type "msconfig" and hit enter. This will launch the systems Configuration Utility. Click on the Startup Tab, expand the "command" column by double clicking or draging the separator. Find the file that ends with "hpqtra08.exe". Uncheck boxes. Apply, Reset.
pippo this exe has trouble stopping when I shutdown my PC
Derk Did get it with an HP Photosmart printer. Pushes my processor to 100% all the time
imobius It slows down the PC, becomes unstable and needs to be terminated at shutdown and is complete, COMPLETELY, un
Jessica Came with my HP printer. Has caused my laptop to run hot because of its constant activity. Ended the process and the laptop immediately went back to its normal processes and fan usage.
Arne Nielsen If you cant delete the file, use and old Norton Commander, it works together with XP. Try a more than twice and you will succed.
jrk it was installed when the wireless printer was added to my 3 computer network but doesn't run properly with my other software
Dr Jim that it is taking 90+% of CPU time, when it should not .
Arnab Banerjee generic Host Problem
Anne Sayers It appears each time I shut down, and can,t log off until I have manually ended.the file..
Jelleton i believe the high cpu usage stops by the time you stop participate in that hp survey about printer-usage. (you certainly have been asked during the installation). At least to stop allowing the programm sending that information worked in my case..
mikie when this application is running, I cannot get on the internet. If I ctrl alt delete then stop the application, everything is fine.
Liam Roche This program, provided by HP, causes very severe problems. 100% CPU/core usage is common, and a window flashes every 1 second on Windows Vista. HP are well aware of the problems appear to be unconcerned about any damage done to customers.
David Barnes It always cause problems when I shut down my computer.
sam this file has been producing fragmented filed on my computer up to 42% twice per day. I personaly think it is a virus. i got it when asking HP online for help (totally useless)
Gary There is a patch on HP's web site not mentioned under QTR008: use the following link and install the patch. This corrects the problem if your printer is connected by LAN:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndes?lc=en&lang=en&cc=us&os=228&softwareitem=oj-27722-1 I don't know if it fixes USB or not, but it didn't affect the functions of HP director at all, but it did fix the problem!  See also: Link
VeMan This is sitting in the Startup Menu, but has an error when trying to load during Startup, and shuts down with a "send Error" Prompt. It doesn't actually load so it never causes a problem. I'm just not sure of the best way to get rid of it.
Lind End Task warning window pops up when shutting down, and has to be manually ended. Not sure if it hurts anything, but totally confuses my 89 yr old mother who surfs the web.
CB HP-Software, wird benötigt zum Scannen über Netzwerk, verursachte bei mir 50% Cpu-Last und Probleme beim Neustart
Jim R Appeared when installing HP Printer 7280 drivers/services; causing Device I/O error/message upon shutdown; caused CPU tasking monopolization; removed from Startup folder and stopped CPU and shutdown error messages
John D Stops Windows XP from shutting down - it is a pain.
cdrk hpqtra08.exe is a pain. Part of HP scanners and printers. It slows down the computer, it opened tons of stupid pop-ups warning me about my colour ink cartridge [that I never use as I print text only]. I found no other way than renaming it [removing the .exe] to get rid of this stupid thing [I didn't wanted to delete it, just in case...]. Since then I can print with no stupid warnings slowing down the PC and forbiding me to access other softwares and the PC is acting normal.
Dean This program caused photoshop elements to load photos in about 45 seconds. When I figured it out and disabled it, my photos loaded in 2 seconds.
Peter destroyed vista experience of new pc. biggest problems of new PC. big mistake by HP
I think it is linked to atl71.dll

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