Hpcron.exe
(Hewlett-Packard)
Part of HPs Simple Trax software. HPs Simple Trax is backup software which is included with some HP CD-Writers and which enables you to backup to CDs you can perform both manual and scheduled backups with Simple Trax.
Recommendation :
Although we are not 100% sure about it, from the reports we have received HPCRON seems to be a background task which notifies the end-user of the success or not of a Simple Trax backup operation that was running in a background window while the user was doing something else in the foreground. Users who have disabled it with Startup Manager report being able to continue using Simple Trax in the normal manner.