Win 10 Properties Tab shows 19.5 TB folder size in a 1TB HDD

angelseven6

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Hi,

I have an ASUS ROG series GL552VW laptop with Intel i7-6700HQ 2.60GHz processor, 1TB HDD, 8GB DDR4 RAM, and 4GB DDR5 nVIDIA GTX-960 Graphics card. I have Windows 10 64-bit OS.

When I checked the size of a folder using mouse right-click, the Properties tab keeps displaying excessive amount of folder size even upwards of several TB. Why is this happening? Is it a virus, malware or some error in the Registry or something else? Also, when I manually select only the files in the folder, I'm able to get the actual size of around 95GB.

Please help. I tried restarting the laptop but same thing started happening again.