Power Manager locking taskbar and creating two battery icons on X201

I am having an issue with one of my X201s and Power Manager running windows 7. My other X201 that runs the same software and was buil7 withing a few months does not have the issue. Periodically while on the internet a second battery icon will pop up on the task bar just partially overlapping the first icon and it has a fluttering appearance. When that happens the task bar is frozen and it takes accessing task manager to be able to restart the computer. I uninstalled and reinstalled the latest versions of the driver for Power Manager and Power Manager but that did not fix the problem. Not running Power Manager seems to prevent any problems but that is not what I want to do. I did some reading last night and it seems I am not the only one having an issue and it is not confined to the particular model. Searching did not lead me to real answers. Looking for a solution or a better way to diagnosis this.
T430 - Taskbar Frozen? This worked for me.
‎01-11-2014 01:44 AM
I thought I would post this in case someone has the same issue I did. Today my taskbar froze after startup (i.e. I couldn't access the start button or any other icon on the task bar and I had a two wonky grey battery icons where only one should have been). Restarting explorer.exe didn't help. It didn't even work in safe mode. No viruses, malware, disk/hardware issues could be found. The culprit was the Power Manager. There have already been a couple threads on this, but they are somewhat convoluted in addressing the issue so I thought I would post a straight forward solution.
I had version 6.3x installed on my T430 (which is only a couple months old, by the way). I had read in another thread that the power manager has been causing problems with the taskbar from way back BUT merely uninstalling it after the problem occurs has triggered the blue screen of death for several users.
So, I downloaded and installed the latest version of Power Manager (currently 6.6x). I did not uninstall the previous version first. I simply installed the new version and restarted the computer when prompted. This fixed the frozen taskbar issue.
Then, and only then, did I uninstall power manger completely because I never want to deal with this again. Everything is now back to normal.
The TL;DR version:
Step 1: Download and install latest version of power manager. DO NOT uninstall previous of power manager first.
Step 2: Restart computer
Step 3: For peace of mind, unistall the latest version of power manager.
Step 4: Restart computer
I hope this helps anyone who needs it.

Well using the older version of powermanger did not work as the issue popped up again. I also discovered the other X201 in the house was also having the same issue with the two battery icons and locked task bar.
I tried a new tactic which unchecking the the box in Power Manager-Options-Show periodic messages about the battery condition. This so far no brought up the problem but more testing is necessary to be certain.

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