W510 Power Manager appearing twice in Taskbar, machine freezing!

Lenovo W510, running WIN 7 Professional, 64 bit. Machine is configured as 4318CTO. Very frustrating problem, machine fires up and runs great but within 30 minutes CPU monitor indicates high activity for no reason, temperature rises, two battery icons will appear in taskbar and machine will lock-up. I have to Ctl-Alt-Del and restart in order to work around. After a re-start machine appears to behave normally. I originally thought problem was overheating, opened up machine and re-pasted internals, not the problem. I'm guessing (layperson) that somehow two PM's (software) are getting enabled? My BIOS is 1.45. The Power Manager Software is V6.67.5. The Power Manager Driver is 1.67.10.17. This includes a (twice sent) Windows PM patch, no KB number associated with either of them. Machine is normally docked. I uninstalled Windows KB3035583, to halt the Windows 10 install. Sticking with WIN 7 for now. I can't be the only person with this issue. Can anyone point me in the direction of a solution? I need this machine for work, don't want to "experiment" on behalf of Lenovo. Thanks for your advice!

ColonelONeaill: No: When I open Task Manager I do not see any processes that match the indicated load as per the temperature monitoring tools (add-a-gadget) I am using. Could be transitory, and not immediately indicatable, but suspect the CPU loading is happening at a level "deeper" than what the Task Manager reports. I could be wrong (I wish I was) but haven't caught this yet....

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