Mac locked up completely. Mouse, screen.

Hello, this is my very first Mac and I tried searching the community for an answer but I can't seem to come up with anything.
I bought the MacBook Pro 15" i7 retina display YESTERDAY. Trying to find my way around this morning and it locked up. The house won't move, the screen won't move and I don't have the first clue as to what I should do.
Exactly what happened is:
I clicked on downloads.
I saw the install file for google chrome that I put on last night at the recommendation of a friend
I dragged it into trash because I didn't think I needed it and I wasn't going to use google chrome
It locked.
It's been like that for 20 minutes.

CBedor wrote:
(FIRST thing I did)
Assumed that was what you meant
That is very strange behavior, instead if you have a mouse and can right-click, or if not do a Control-click with the mouse or trackpad, and see if you can just choose Delete on Chrome. Dragging to the trash should not be locking up like that unless there is something really strange about the Chrome installation.

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For anyone else who finds their way here like I did, this link did it for me: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/527599/windows-8-issues-solved-please-r ead-if-you-39-re-having-black-screen-and-or-flickering-/
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