Windows Action Center falsely reports that SEP 12.12MP1 is off

I recently started getting messages from the windows action reporting that SEP anti-virus and Anti-Spyware is turned off when they both are ON.   I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling with the latest version (12.12MP1).  It still is being flagged as being off.  I even uninstalled SEP and installed AVG 2013 free and it worked fine with action center reporting correctly.  As sooon as I uninstalled AVG and reinstalled SEP the action center messages reported that my anti-virus is OFF.   What can I do about this???

Thanks

John