Programatically Recover From Safe Mode

[Joe Winder]

I have a VB.Net application that creates an instance of Word and uses it to
create a document from a group of HTML documents. Occasionally, Word will
crash leaving an orphaned process. My application can usually catch and log
these errors, however, to cleanup, I have to kill the orphaned process and
restart Word. When Word restarts, it comes up in safe mode and presents a
dialog to the user. You must acknowledge the dialog and then save or delete
the files that it tries to recover. At some point, I would like to have this
application run unattended. Is there a way to better handle Word application
errors and prevent the application from needing to go into Safe Mode?

Thanks,
Joe