| Subject | English | Japanese |
| comp., MS | full PIDL | 完全 PIDL (A PIDL that uniquely describes an object relative to the desktop folder) |
| comp., MS | relative PIDL | 相対 PIDL (A PIDL that is relative to a root object in the shell namespace other than the desktop folder. This is commonly the parent folder of the item) |
| comp., MS | simple PIDL | 簡易 PIDL (A PIDL that is parsed without disk verification) |