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.