Network Start Up Drives

I have some networked drives being started at logon, all that is working great, but is there a way so they don't open in their own Finder folder? I have to manually close each folder when I reboot and it's kind of a pain.
Thanks.

Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and enter the following:
tell application "Finder"
close every window
end tell
Save it as an application and add it to the bottom of the Login Items list. The computer will then automatically close all the windows at startup. If you know the names of the windows, the script can be written to close only those windows. You can use a delay statement if the script is running too soon, such as 'delay 3' without the quote marks.
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