Changing Default Database File Locations in SQL

I missed to specify the default location for the data file and the log file while installing SQL SERVER . So when I created a database and did not specify the default location for the files it will be created on the location defined in the server settings. So if we want  always the data files and log files to be created on a particular location we can
change the server properties through SSMS - > Database Settings -> Database default locations .

However this requires the sql instance to be restarted for the changes to take effect.