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Chrome text bigger out of nowhere So when I turned on Google Chrome, I noticed all the text was much larger, including the tabs and search bar and everything around it. I also got a popup saying that my proxy settings had been changed or something, and that I was being monitored or something. I selected change to default, but nothing came afterwards. One thing to note is that I do use Hola to access Pandora since I live in Canada, but I only use it for that one site to change my proxy to be in the USA. After everything got bigger and the popup with the proxy change came up, Chrome disabled Hola by itself, and I had to manually re able it. Here's a picture of how things got and look "bigger." I don't know if it'll help too much, bu

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Win7 Freezing on startup Please Wait Screen While I was working on my History assignment, my computer froze randomly. I had no control over anything at that point, and even my music I had playing flat-lined and just kept going as a one toned "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep." I hard-reset my computer, and whenever the "Please Wait" screen appears, my computer would freeze there, with the windows logo staying in place. On the off 5% chance somehow it doesn't freeze there, it goes to my desktop, but EVERYTHING is black. I can't see anything, but I can see my cursor, and have complete control over it, just can't click anything. Nothing like this ever happened in the years I've owned this computer. I'm typing this right now in SAFE MODE,