TV Remote Affecting Laptop

I have a Satellite P105-S9312. The problem that I'm having is that my television remote will cause my computer to do things (i.e. volume button changes the song that I'm playing, the mute button with cause the shut-down window to open, etc.).
The computer came with a remote control, so it has that ability (which is why I'm assuming I'm having this issue). I'm figuring that if I can some how turn off the remote receiver then that would solve the issue.
Anyone have any ideas how to do that? Or how else I might be able to fix this?

I get this too. Went looking and there doesn't seem to be a "good" way of disabling the Infrared on the machine, at least in Windows XP, which is what my P100 has installed.
The clunky way to disable the IR may be:
Open up Control Panel, open System, click on the Hardware tab, then click on Device Manager.
Open the "Human Interface Devices" category.
Right click on "SMSC HID CIR - Consumer IR" and choose Uninstall
It'll want to restart your computer, and probably try to install the driver. Tell it not to install, if that's an option.
That should disable the IR entirely. There used to be a way of disabling device in the Device Manager, but I didn't see that available, perhaps that's an "improvement"

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