Finder starts with five windows open!

I have looked for an answer on here, but haven't been able to find it. For some reason, my Finder just started opening five windows every time I launch it (same five, all different). I have the newest OS version.
I have closed all of the windows, relaunched finder, rebooted the system -- all to no avail.

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, enter ~/Library/Preferences/ as the folder's location, and move the file named com.apple.finder or com.apple.finder.plist to the desktop. Next, relaunch the Finder again, and see if the windows are open.
This is not an issue with login items in the Accounts pane of System Preferences; if it was, the windows would not appear when the Finder was relaunched while remaining logged in.
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