Hard disk mysteriously "fills" after having deleted the files and programs uninstall

My C drive is suddenly appeared full and I had a little flashing icon who said that I was running low disk space.  I checked and 92.9 GB I used almost all.  I started uninstalling programs and deleting files (move to an external hard drive and "erase the files in the C drive with 7 assists) to height of about 15-20 GB removed from drive C so far.  He started showing the space freed up in properties, but all of a sudden I'm at just 2.4 GB of free space.  I ran CCleaner and Norton 360 and have no bugs.  I use the Microsoft malicious software removal tool.  It's done more than 3 5ths and showing without problems.  Any ideas?

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