[Corpus Masochist]

Thanks very much for posting the bluebird fix.

[genericususer]

Argh. I bought one of these drives specifically intending to remove the bluebirds crap immediately, but the removal too doesn't work for me! T_T Does it only run on 32 bit operating systems or something? Is there any other way to delete these files from the drive's firmware? I can't get stupid vista to let me edit the firmware at all, and LG's website doesn't even have a product listing for gh22ns50. Please help!

[sw00p]

awesome job..... I have 3 of them for some systems for a customer, no way on earth I could deliver them with this bluebird crud

thanks again

[spiff]

genericususer, on Jul 10 2009, 02:37 AM, said:

Argh. I bought one of these drives specifically intending to remove the bluebirds crap immediately, but the removal too doesn't work for me! T_T Does it only run on 32 bit operating systems or something? Is there any other way to delete these files from the drive's firmware? I can't get stupid vista to let me edit the firmware at all, and LG's website doesn't even have a product listing for gh22ns50. Please help!

There is no other way that I know of to remove Bluebirds from the drives other then this fix.
I don't have any systems here with Vista 64 that I could test with, but I would think the tool would run under Vista 64, you may need to run it as Administrator for it to work.

sw00p, on Jul 10 2009, 05:23 PM, said:

awesome job..... I have 3 of them for some systems for a customer, no way on earth I could deliver them with this bluebird crud

thanks again

That is why I went through so much trouble to get this fix from LG, you had 3 of them, I have over 50 most of which were going to military customers who don't like extra bits of software hanging around in their systems

[lcdguy]

i too have this drive with this god forsaken blue bird crap. And i can confirm that the tool does not work on vista x64. I have tried running it normally and as an admin. It's still there.

[obscured]

lcdguy, on Jul 10 2009, 11:06 PM, said:

i too have this drive with this god forsaken blue bird crap. And i can confirm that the tool does not work on vista x64. I have tried running it normally and as an admin. It's still there.

I ran it on Windows 7 x64 without an issue. This will not remove software that has already been installed...for that, go to msconfig. This will just stop the pop ups from the firmware to install whenever the drive is closed.

On a side note, the removal tool worked great! Thanks for this.

[ande8150]

worked great, thanks!

[ibzmav]

@spiff, thanks soooo much for this app!

I just bought this burner and got bothered by that bluebird s***. Good thing that you posted how to get rid of it.

[Bigbird999]

Nice Job. Thank You!!!!

[darkoblivion_2]

w00t! worked like a charm
tyvm

[nop_th]

That's tools is help me

[urbanriot]

spiff, on Jun 22 2009, 06:48 PM, said:

Personally I think whoever green lighted this annoying piece of adware to be embedded into these drives should be promptly fired.

Thank you, and I agree. As a reseller I was shocked to discover we were selling PC's with this crap embedded in it. Fortunately our system builder caught it immediately. We'll no longer be carrying LG drives until they discontinue this practice, and perhaps will being carrying an alternative. This is a disgusting practice and I'm really disappointed in LG.

[jerdtsieck]

Thanks for the tool, Spiff. We just bought two drives for some users over here and one of the techs freaked out whe she saw it. If it wasn't removed the users would inevitably have installed it and claimed ignorance of how it got there.

For those who are complaining that it isn't working. It didn't work for me either at first. I discovered that it does nothing while the "bluebird" image is loaded for Windows to see. In other words, either eject the tray and leave it open or place a disc in the drive before running. Afterwards it should not show up when the tray is closed and empty.

[max_damage]

Uooou, that's works, thaks you very much, I can't belive what do LG with theirs DVD's.

[cdwayne foremost]

man you f***ing phenominon

[samboy05]

hey can anyone post the firmware for this writer LG- GH22NS50, thanks in advance.

[firsttime]

lazyacer, on Jul 9 2009, 08:22 PM, said:

obligatory post to say thanks to op

and flip the bird at LG and their bleedin' bird s***

Thanks a lot for the solution , i got my issue fixed...

[Selena]

I'll join the crowd.

Very useful, thanks for sharing the tool.

[badtheba]

THANK YOU! This was my first LG optical drive purchase, actually listed as a GH22LS50. I found a firmware download link on the LG website, but everything to download as of 7-16-2009 it is greyed out.

http://www.lge.com/us/support/product/supp...product-profile

Your solution worked. I have previously stuck with Lite-On/PLDS, ASUS, and sometimes Samsung, but found this cheap on Newegg and bought it. Glad I caught it before it ended up in the customer's hands! Curses, LG, what were you thinking?

[linxthumb]

Thank you for posting this. Cheers!