Windows 10: Apps & Features Taking Up Disk Storage - Can't find where the storage is coming from. Help!!!

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Apps & Features Taking Up Disk Storage - Can't find where the storage is coming from

I use Windows 10. I don't really use my laptop for anything but work and browsing the web. Today I got a notification that my disk storage was full, which came as a surprise because I don't download or install too many programs. Below is what my storage
is showing:





Clearly my Apps & Features are taking up the most space. But when I click in to sort through what apps are taking up space, there only appears to be a couple of gigs worth of storage used... Not 346 GB as it says (apps sorted by largest to smallest):





No app is more than 1 GB and after the first 10 apps, none are larger than 10 MB. I cannot figure out why I am running out of space. I did recently install a new system update, but other than that, I can't imagine why I am suddenly full here... Any help
would be appreciated, thanks!

 

Why does Apps and Features say it’s taking up more storage than the sum of the apps?

I’m trying to make room on my computer and noticed that Apps and Features in storage settings says it takes up 134GB. I went through all the apps to try and figure out how the heck that happened and noticed that:

1) there are a bunch of apps that don’t list a storage size beside them (this includes things from Epson, Dropbox, Norton Security, Spotify, Steam, etc). I also uninstalled Spotify to see how much it would make a difference and nothing changed, even after
a restart.

2) if I add up everything manually, including my best estimates for these files without the storage size listed, I come at most to 50GB. Are there other apps in this section that aren’t shown or why would this be happening?

 

Apps & Features taking up 100GB of Disk Space

Hi Microsoft Community,

I have a Surface Laptop that has 120 GB of disk space, and of late notice that Apps & Features has taken up about 100GB of my disk space. When referring to it through Systems/Storage - it shows that App & Features has taken up 100GB, but in referring to
the list of apps listed, there's at most 30GB. What's puzzling is there about 70GB that I am not able to find which app is taking up all that disk space. Have done all the disk/system cleanup and the space wouldn't clear.

Appreciate any advise. Thanks