User Account Control settings say OFF, but I have the highest notification setting on

[0719Sydney]

I have my User Account Control setting to ALWAYS NOTIFY, but HP Support Assistant keeps telling me that this security setting is OFF.

[Dragon-Fur]

@0719Sydney 

Perhaps it is a matter of which setting controls which action.

For example:

User Account Control (UAC) is different from the way in which HP Support Assistant (HPSA) determines the setting.

Example:  Control Panel > icon view > User Accounts > Change User Account Control settings

UAC set to "Notify - do not dim the desktop

UAC_Settings_1

Example:  HP Support Assistant - Settings > More Options > "Notify" - do not automatically install Updates

HPSA_Settings_3A

OR

Indicate where you are seeing in the HPSA that the security setting is "OFF".

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[0719Sydney]

I did everything you recommended and I still have message 

[Dragon-Fur]

@0719Sydney 

OK.

Where do you "have message"?

That is, where are you seeing the message?   Is is a pop-up on your Desktop screen?

What is the source of the "Security" window in your second image?

  Are you using Windows Defender or a different security software?

Ideas...

The message may be (likely is) a "false positive", that is, the security software is mis-reading the setting in Windows UAC.  Windows Defender is less likely to "mis-read" a correct setting (Defender is a Windows product). 

Other security software may - or may not - work as expected in Windows; this might be due to an actual incorrect reading or there is perhaps something else set in the security software that is cross-contaminating the results. 

Could also be a bug of some kind (software / code bug and not "maleware").

Windows Updates may need to be checked and run.

The computer might need to be Restarted.

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