What is VirtualZones?
VirtualZones is a small native Windows app that splits each physical monitor into zones: rectangles that behave like separate monitors. It is built for ultrawide and super-ultrawide displays (for example a 49” 5120×1440 panel) but works on any monitor.
It does four things:
- Confines maximized and fullscreen windows to the zone they belong to, instead of letting them cover the whole monitor. See Fullscreen confinement.
- Snaps a window into a zone when you hold Shift while dragging it. See Drag-to-snap.
- Moves the focused window zone by zone, and across monitors, with Ctrl+Alt+W/A/S/D. See Moving windows with hotkeys.
- Shares one zone into Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or OBS through their normal “share a window” picker. See Share a zone.
How it works (and what it is not)
Section titled “How it works (and what it is not)”VirtualZones is a window manager, not a virtual display driver. Windows still sees one physical monitor. VirtualZones watches for windows that try to take over the screen and resizes them into a zone, so apps render natively at full speed. Nothing is captured or re-encoded, except a zone you explicitly share.
Because it is not a driver:
- Nothing is installed at kernel level, and no admin rights are needed.
- Exclusive-fullscreen games bypass the desktop compositor and can’t be held in a zone; use the game’s borderless windowed mode instead. Browser fullscreen (F11) works in Chrome, Edge and Firefox. See Troubleshooting.
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”| Platform | Windows 10 (1809+) and Windows 11, x64. Mac version coming soon |
| Form | One self-contained native exe (Rust, Win32, Direct2D). No .NET or VC++ runtime |
| Install | Per-user installer, no admin needed |
| Languages | 35 UI languages (Appearance & language) |
| Price | 7-day free trial with everything unlocked, then a paid license. See Trial & plans |
| Privacy | No ads, no account, anonymous usage ping you can turn off. Every network call is listed |
| Publisher | Napps LLC · virtualzones.cc |
Replaces three tools
Section titled “Replaces three tools”| You’d otherwise use | For | VirtualZones equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| PowerToys FancyZones | Zone layouts and drag-to-snap | Layouts + Shift-drag |
| A virtual-display splitter | Keeping fullscreen apps inside a region | Confinement |
| RegionToShare | Sharing one region of the screen | Share Zone |
Where to next
Section titled “Where to next”Quick startPick a layout, press Start, confine your first window in a minute.
Custom layoutsSplit, merge and size zones in the grid editor.
HotkeysEvery global hotkey and how to rebind it.
All settingsEvery toggle, its default and exactly what it does.
TroubleshootingGames, the taskbar, admin windows, hotkeys that don't fire.
For AI assistantsllms.txt, llms-full.txt and answering guidelines.