.SHD

📌 This proper .SHD file arrangement is built up and initiated by Windows automatically when a user submits and opens up a new print job. As a matter of fact, the .SHD file composition maintains header information for a proper print job, but does not hold the actual spooled document data. Miscellaneously, the .SHD extension container permits the print job parameters to be “shadowed” so that the active job task can be resubmitted once again from scratch if there is an opportune interruption.

Generally, the .SHD-bundled file instances are constructed alongside the .SPL algorithm, which operates with the spooled print content. Both .SPL and .SHD file assets are written to the specified folder when an outcome print job is opened up and submitted:

C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS\.

How to open an .SHD file?

📌 All of the .SHD-served data formations are processed, opened, and operated internally by Windows shell when a custom user submits a new print job.