“It’s not a tumor.” –Arnold

So I have this Windows box that I use occasionally that was really low on disk space. I mean crazy low. I mean queue the limbo music how low can you go low. Only problem was that for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why.

I deleted old source code, old libraries, old programs, everything. In the end I was left only with the development tools, MS Office, and a web browser that seems to think that actually using DNS is too much like cheating. (Don’t ask.)

Then I remembered I could run WinDirStat which is probably what I should have done in the first place. The result?

That giant blue box there in the middle is a 75 GB data file that I was using in an oddball directory and had promptly forgotten about. Essentially the machine had a massive tumor like you see on those TV real life medical shows only (thankfully) without all the blood and pus.