The SHS file extension is primarily associated with Shell Scrap Object Files produced by

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. They are created by selecting part of a document content and then dragging and dropping it outside the document program window (e.g. selecting some lines of text in a

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document, dragging and dropping them on the desktop). The

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will create an .shs file with the selected content, which will be useless alone, and only readable by dragging the

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and dropping it in a program which supports this mechanism. Versions of Windows that support SHS are Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, ME, 2000, XP, and Server 2003. Microsoft removed this function in

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, and it is not included with Vista or after with

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, and

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