While I can use ExifTool to find out what tags are in use for a file I want to use fields that can actually be displayed in Windows Explorer. Does anyone know where Explorer actually looks for these fields? This is for columns like "Account Name" or "Client ID" and even the various city and state address fields.

Even Microsoft Pro Photo Tools lets you edit street address, phone #, etc but they don't show up in explorer with any of the provided fields.

I found the policy for many of the tags in the Photo Metadata Policy document on MSDN. This shows the precedence for many of the tags such as Author,Comment,Copyright, etc.

I also found a more easily searchable version of the tag names document on CPAN so I can find something like the "DocumentID" there but it still won't show up in Windows Explorer.

Perhaps certain columns are only used for certain file types but it'd be great to know which ones can potentially be actually displayed in Vista or Windows 7.

Alternatively, are there any good replacements for Windows Explorer that do a better job of handling the metadata?

Thanks!