You can grab what is already available by enumeration, but you said you didn't want to do a lot of copying etc...

Okay, different approach.

Move ALL the menus to a special folder such as C:\PRIVATE\Start Menu

Then setup the folders how you want. Then depending on which group a user is a member of, have a script copy the correct folders to the real locations, or to this new special folder you want.

I.e... create a MATH folder, a SCIENCE folder etc... then have the shortcuts you want already in there and copy/move them around depending on group membership.

Like I said above this was just an example and would probably not LOOK exactly what you were thinking of, but if you don't have the programming skills to complete it then that might be a rather difficult task to do as well.

Bottom line answer is YES it can be done, but you will need to do some of it and get the ball rolling.

I also don't typically advocate hard coding anything, but in your case I don't see what you really want for sure either. Every user will have all the same icons from the Accessories group, so why are you copying it? If there is no method to your madness with EXACT specifics then I'm not sure how any of us is going to be able to help you.

I'm willing to give you a hand, but so far you have not laid out enough exact specific information..

1. How many groups with different NEW SHORTCUTS are we talking about?
2. How many DIFFERENT SHORTCUT MENUS are we talking about?
etc. etc. etc....

Please layout and define EXACTLY what it is you want, because so far I'm in the dark about your request.