What is AccelerometerSt.exe process - Hp Accelerometer System Tray?

Process AccelerometerSt.exe is the Hp Accelerometer System Tray program available on HP computers. The tray icon looks like: .

Hp Accelerometer System Tray program represents HP Mobile Data Protection with digital accelerometer which protects your disk drive by parking the drive and halting I/O requests when you:

• Drop your computer.
• Move your computer with the display closed while the computer is running on battery power.

A short time after the end of one of these events, HP Mobile Data Protection returns the disk drive to normal operation.

AccelerometerSt.exe is launched as a startup program. You should keep it running to protect your hard disk drive.

AccelerometerSt.exe process and program file info:

CPU usage: 00%
Memory usage: 2,244K
Launching method: Startup program
Directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32
File name: accelerometerST.exe
Description: Hp Accelerometer System Tray
Size:  53,248 bytes
Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 3:32:02 AM
Version: 1.0.2.1
Company name: Hewlett-Packard
System essential: No
Virus/Spyware/Adware: No