Windows 7 Home Premium Problem

So I maxed out my motherboards memory yesterday and turned on the computer and it turns out home premium doesn't allow you to use more than 16 gb ram! I never dreamed the operating system would limit this so I only paid attention to my motherboard. My mistake.

I found some old posts on the internet saying you used to be able to upgrade from home premium to pro for $95 dollars to use the rest of the memory (different windows versions always seemed like a stupid scam to me and now that's proven)... but if you type windows anytime upgrade into the search bar or on microsoft, all it shows is ways to "upgrade" to windows 8.

Windows 8 is NOT an upgrade!

Any ideas how I can hack windows 7 premium for the extra 16gb of memory or find a reasonable upgrade for 7 pro?

Apologies for hyper.

Some people have issues with Win 8, but you might take a look at 8.1...

You can still get win7 pro upgrade discs. It's more expensive than win8 by design, so you'll just have to eat that. ;)

I dont remember the exact saying in EULA but you can buy windows 8 pro and install windows 7 pro.

January 21 2012 I paid $97 for an anytime upgrade of Home Premium to Ultimate through an Amazon Digital purchase. Now it isn't listed as an Amazon item and the only seller has a Pro upgrade for 275. The Ultimate upgrade is unavailable. There is this for $176 but I am not sure if you can type that product code in as an anytime upgrade. The code for my Ultimate looked like any other windows product code so it may work.