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Even better update--I just remembered that Delfix was a thing and ran to purge system restore points and create a new one. After I did this, I'm now back up to 43.3 gb. I'm going to keep an eye on it to see if it keeps leaking--but I'm hoping that was the problem. Because on further consideration--is it possible that the original blue screen caused by the shadow copies happened because of the memory leak? I mean--since the shadow copies (which are still turned off) didn't have enough room to store themselves, the blue screen happened? That seems like it would make sense, at least from my layman's point of view--but I also have very little idea what I am talking about.
Again--thank you so much for all your patience with me!