Share one part of your screen in Zoom, Teams, Meet or OBS
On a big monitor, sharing your whole screen shows everything and makes it unreadable for viewers. Share Zone exposes one zone as its own window, so any app that can “share a window” shows just that zone, with whatever is in it, live.
Start sharing a zone
Section titled “Start sharing a zone”Use either:
- Tray icon → Share →
<Monitor>: Zone N. A checkmark means the zone is being shared. - Hotkeys: Ctrl+Alt+1, 2 or 3 share zone 1, 2 or 3 of the monitor your active window is on. Zones 4 to 9 have no default hotkey. You can assign them in Keyboard Shortcuts….
Zones are numbered in reading order: zone 1 is top-left. Press the same hotkey again to stop sharing.
A dashed frame in your app color marks each shared zone on your screen. Solid borders are normal zones, dashed means shared. Viewers never see the frame.
Pick it in your meeting app
Section titled “Pick it in your meeting app”Open your app’s share picker and choose the window named:
VirtualZones - Share Zone N| App | Where |
|---|---|
| Zoom | Share Screen → Basic → pick the VirtualZones - Share Zone N window |
| Microsoft Teams | Share → Window → VirtualZones - Share Zone N |
| Google Meet (Chrome/Edge) | Present now → A window → VirtualZones - Share Zone N |
| OBS Studio | Sources → + → Window Capture → [VirtualZones.exe]: VirtualZones - Share Zone N |
| Discord | Share Your Screen → Applications → VirtualZones - Share Zone N |
The meeting sees only that zone, at its native resolution. Everything outside it (other apps, notifications, private notes) stays off the call. You can move windows in and out of the zone during the call, and viewers see whatever is there.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”- Several zones at once: you can share several zones, even on different monitors. Each gets its own Share Zone N window.
- Works whether confinement is on or off. You don’t need to press Start to share.
- Changing the layout, Cover taskbar or Enabled closes that screen’s shares. Share again afterwards.
- The zone must exist. For example, Share Zone 3 does nothing on a two-zone layout.
- The mirror window is invisible and click-through, so it doesn’t block your work. It has a taskbar button so meeting apps list it. Closing that taskbar button (for example with Alt+F4) also stops the share.
- If capture is interrupted (lock screen, resolution change), it recovers automatically.
Performance and privacy
Section titled “Performance and privacy”The zone is captured with the GPU’s desktop duplication and copied on the GPU into the mirror window, so CPU use stays low. Frames never leave your PC through VirtualZones: the meeting app does the transmitting, exactly as for any window you share. Share Zone is the only feature that captures screen content, and only for zones you turn on.