| Subject | English | Hebrew |
| comp., MS | full PIDL | PIDL מלא (A PIDL that uniquely describes an object relative to the desktop folder) |
| comp., MS | relative PIDL | PIDL יחסי (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 | PIDL פשוט (A PIDL that is parsed without disk verification) |