Disable Vista's DVD maker?

I have a game that has some sort of copy protection on it that if it sees a
DVD burning aplication with a dvdrw drive or emulator it will install but
when you go to run the game, it will say "please insert the disk" even if you
just started it right from the drive. Least thats what Im told.

So short of removing my DVDRW drive to play a game and putting it back in
when I want to burn something, is there a way to just disable DVD maker and
be able to turn it on if I need it?

Thats the only burning software I can see that my machine has since I just
clean loaded Vista Home Premium.