A Very Troubled Application...

I have a very troubled application (not mine but a 3rd party) that likes to
fail with various Unhandled exceptions (memory access and others) when
certain files are loaded (I have no idea of the reason).  Sometimes loading
a file causes a COM exception to occur (no one knows why and it's very
unlikely that the manufacturer will ever fix it).  This causes the entire
application to crash (and/or provide some other unpredictable behavior).
This does not occur most of the time but only occasionally.  However I must
account for these eventualities as this process will be running on multiple
servers and I need it the most stable I can get it.

What I have been doing is looking for the process in the process list and
then killing it.  That works most of the time but when one of those dialogs
is thrown up asking you to click OK it really messes things up.  I've
started looking for the dialog, but the time when the dialog appears varies
so any predictability is out.

What I need to know is if it's possible to attach a hook (or some other such
mechanism) to the window to intercept any unhandled win32 exceptions similar
to the capability available in the .NET framework.  I'm at my wit's end here
on this one.  I need to create something stable enough so I can recover on
the server and continue.

Any help or information would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

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