Stop Zoom window minimizing when sharing

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Hi guys,

I run lectures from home, I have 3 monitors, I set up Zoom and Chrome Browser on half a screen each on my left, I have Power Point presenter view in the middle and the presentation on the right. In the Zoom window I have it set up to see the participants list and Chat window.

I click Screen share and share the right screen (the powerpoint presentation) and instantly Zoom minimizes to the silly little floating window and I lose the chat window. I have to manually reopen the window every time I change shares to keep seeing the chat. Is there a setting (in windows version) to disable this auto minimize on sharing? Seached and can not find anything!

Cheers, Dave.

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