Windows Picture and Fax Viewer "close and open picture for editing" button

I want to still use the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer for viewing pictures but when you click the "close and open picture for editing" button I wish to use a different editor than Paint. Does anyone know how to change this permanently? I'm using XP sp2. Thanx.

Background: I like using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer because it displays the picture instantly which usually is all I want. My other pic editors take way too long to come up to be used as the default for jpg extensions when all you want is to view them. But I would like to edit the pics with a different editor than Paint so it would be convenient to change the "close and open picture for editing" button of Windows Picture and Fax Viewer rather than having to close this program and launch my pic editor and then browse to the same picture. I already read the Help and all it says is it uses the default picture editor but doesn't say how to change it. Note that I still want the .jpg extension associated with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer so changing that is not an option.

 

Thank you.