Casting back to my days as a programmer, given that:
1) this only happens after working for a while,
2) restarting Explorer sorts it out, and
3) it's only happening with Sonar Platinum,
this sounds like one of Sonar's buffers is running off the end of its assigned memory space and overwriting in-RAM settings for Explorer. What's really odd is that an error should be coming up during the compile phase when Sonar is being built. If it isn't, then it's a problem with Microsoft's development tools.