How to change the default editor for PNG files from MS Paint to paint.net in Windows 10?

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I solved my problem by myself. First I decided to find all registry values containing "mspaint.exe" to try to replace the path to MS Paint with what I need. One of the interesting keys I found was this:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command

Googled it, and the first search result was this article:

How to change the default image editor program
http://www.techwork.dk/windows-7/how-to-change-the-default-image-editor-program

Tried it, and it works! We just need to change the default value of that key to the string

"C:\Program Files\paint.net\PaintDotNet.exe" "%1"