properties of C drive shows more space used than total of all folders on root of C (incl. hidden files)

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SteveGuy1

The properties of my local storage (C drive) show it is using 475 GB of storage. I got the properties of all folders on the root of C drive and the total is only 366 GB. Yes, Hidden and system files are shown. That's over 100GB of space either used or wasted somewhere. I've looked at the files that could be eliminated with Disk Cleanup but that would only eliminate ~29GB. Anyone have any insight into this before I outgrow this hard drive?

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