How do I refresh network drives that were not accessible during boot up

How do I refresh network drives that were not accessible during boot up On a work laptop (WinXP) (@work) I normally get 5-6 network drives mapped on boot, say "M, N, O, P, Q, R"
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"I suspect that you may have to map them yourself. You don't really need to reboot to do so. What you do need, however, are the names of the shares and the system they are hosted on. This you'll need to get after you log in on your work LAN, and save them so you don't have to reboot every time.

This information can be found in the registry, if you have access to it. The path needed will be in the following location:

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Network\{drive letter}\RemotePath

Once you have that info for each drive, you can re-map them by hand, or create a .bat file on your desktop and run that to map them.

The Batch file would look something like the following:

@echo off
net use m: <value of RemotePath for M drive>
net use n: <value of RemotePath for N drive>

There should be a line for each drive you want to map."