I'm suddenly missing audio files. Can they be recovered?

A number of tracks in my iTunes Library seem to be missing. These tracks appear with an ! symbol to the left of the track name. I'm a Mac guy but this is a problem on my wife's Windows machine. I think I had this problem in the past on my Mac  with both iTunes and iPhoto files (latest vesions of software and OS). I think there is a way to rebuild libraies on the Mac but how do you do it on a Windows machine?
Hope you can help.
John

The "!" symbol means that iTunes does not find the song file in the location it was expecting.  This usually occurs when the file, or one of its containing folders, has been moved, deleted, or renamed.
If you or your wife remember changing something, then change it back.  If not, then find the files with the help of Windows Search, and don't forget to look in the Recycle bin too. 

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