Disable Automatic Keyboard Lighting in XP

Is it possible to disable the auto lighting of my Mac Book Pro in Windows XP? I went to the Boot Camp program and also the keyboard control panel in XP and I couldn't find any solutions.

Ohh that drives me nuts. There has to be a registry key somewhere that turns it off on boot.

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