Windows 10: C drive storage showing nearly 300 gigs used in apps, when i know i only have 190 used maximum.

The only games I have installed on C drive SSD are Red Dead Redemption 2 119.45 GB and Modern Warfare II 58.09 GB. I also went through and calculated all the sizes of the other apps, and found the total between the two games and other apps to be 184.47 GB. However, storage is showing I have 295 GB in apps which absolutely isn't so. I'd like to know why this is, and I cannot find an answer online.

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Hard Drive Storage

I have a 500Gb Hard Drive, running Windows 10 Pro version 1909. My c drive is nearly full, I have checked every area on the pc and nothing adds up to the 486Gb I'm supposed to have available. I have gone to Settings > System > Storage - it shows that 401Gb
is being taken up by Apps and features but when I click on this and show the list of installed apps with their sizes, I have added up the entire list and it comes to 25Gb total. It doesn't show what's eating up the rest of the 400Gb of space. I have deleted
everything I can and have only been able to free up 11Gb so far so my c drive is still showing red. At this point is the only other step to reload the pc, or does anyone have any suggestions as to what it might be and how to fix?

Thanks,

Heather

 

storage space on the C drive using an external hard drive

How do I connect an external hard drive to give additional storage space on the C drive. The device is plugged in and recognised by the computer, but am unable to link it to the hard drive which is now nearly full.

 

What is resizing maximum shadow copy storage space?

On my laptop, drive C: is a small solid state drive with only about 50G of free space. I noticed that a little bit of this free space is disappearing every day until only a few gigs of free space was remaining. Turned out, shadow storage was eating up all
the free space. The size of used shadow copy storage space was about 45GB. The maximum shadow copy storage space was set to unbounded.

I resized the maximum shadow copy storage space and set the size to 20GB using 'vssadmin resize shadowstorage' command. A few days later, I noticed the maximum shadow copy storage space was set back to unbounded. I tried setting maximum size through the
GUI (system protection settings) but that did not last either.

Is there any way to find out what application resizes the maximum storage space? Any ideas why something would want storage space to be unbounded?

Thanks,

Igor