No space left in C drive, what is going on?

Saderusu

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Hello everyone.
I have a problem with my C drive, it has no space left, 3 giga out of 112, it has been gradually filling up in space without me noticing until it reached this low point, and I have no idea why, I barely have any programs installed, and all of my media/songs/games downloads I download to my E drive.
There is absolutely no justification to my C drive being so full.
Even 2 weeks ago I had 12 giga bytes left, and today I have only 3, last week I had 6, how? what takes up so much space? I ran CC cleaner, barely cleared up any space, I also ran the built it drive clean up by windows and it didn't clear up anything.
I ran an anti-virus check and anti-malware check and both didn't find anything.
I ran windirstat and uploaded the screenshot of the findings.
apparently windows and programs files take almost everything, but according to the windirstat it shows I'm supposed to have 12 giga bytes left, yet my computer shows only 3.

I'd appreciate help on this matter, this is worrying and making me nervous, something is eating up all of my C drive space and I have no idea what it is.
 

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