It seems that hibernate is the correct word here (based mainly on search in the Wikipedia) although I found some contradicting informations. Anyway, the inter-language Wikipedia-link to German Ruhezustand is Hibernation (computing) and that German word is an item in the shutdown-menu that I used to have on my old PC (with OS Windows 10) and I miss it much on the new one (having Windows 11).
Contrary to a stand-by (called “save energy”) this makes a real shutdown, but the PC first copies on the hard drive everything needed for resuming work, exactly where one has left it, after the next start. Default for laptops I suppose, but may-be not yet for desktop PCs.
My new PC (second hand in fact) doesn’t have this really time and energy saving feature. I guess this is just a Windows option for Windows 10 and Windows 11 (maybe even older) since the manufacturer of my new PC is the same as that of my old one. I thought that such an option needs the use of an extra-partition, but what I read doesn’t confirm this; maybe this has changed.
I also tried a lot in the Windows 11 options/help files (and webpages) but didn’t find an explanation of how to obtain a shutdown-menu containing the item (and thus the function) “Ruhezustand/hibernation” (or whatever might be the exact name in English. And in German it could have changed between Windows 10 and 11).
