Call up the address book without starting the main application(Thunderbird)

              You want to quickly look up an address, but you are annoyed to see that Thunderbird asks you for a connection before starting the mail accounts.

              The first option is to completely disable the automatic call-up of messages. However, there is another way in which you can directly access the address book. You can create a shortcut on the desktop. For this, right click on the Desktop and select the context command ‘New | Shortcut’. Define 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe -addressbook' as the target and click ‘Next’. Then enter the name, e.g. ‘Address Book’ and click ‘Finish’. The next time you want to access the address book, simply click the shortcut that you have created.