| Subject | French | English |
| comp., MS | PIDL complet | full PIDL (A PIDL that uniquely describes an object relative to the desktop folder) |
| comp., MS | PIDL relatif | relative 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 | PIDL simple | simple PIDL (A PIDL that is parsed without disk verification) |