Best way to gift a used Xbox 360?

It's great that you want to make such an amazing gift for your friend's grandson.

While others already described how to remove your account, please help your friend make an account for himself (an adult account), and a separate (child) account for his grandson.

Some (grand) parents make the mistake of using their own adult email account and let the kid play with that.

However, by using their own adult account for the kid, the kid is regarded as an adult for the console, and the parent is unable to prevent the kid from talking to internet strangers for example, or limit the playtime. Also, this prevents the kid from going
on an (accidental) shopping spree, and buying stuff from the Xbox Marketplace with the parent's credit card or bank account.

So please advise your friend, that when they create an account for his grandchild, that he (or the father of the kid) should create their own adult Microsoft Account and then a separate child account (by giving the kid's actual birthdate during account creation).

After the child account is created, the parent should then go to
https://account.microsoft.com/family and add the child account to their family.

That way, the parent can set permissions and privacy options to make the Xbox a safe place to play.

Additionally, this avoids later issues, where the kid would be able to access the parent's email or other Microsoft Services, if the parents let the kid play on their account. Later, you can't move the kid's gaming account away from the parent email account,
without the parent's Microsoft Account being deleted.

Thanks! That is the info I needed.

I am going to delete my profile from the box but leave whatever is on there for him. The kid is not going to have much of a Christmas (not his fault or his grampa's-just life) so every little bit helps.

Regards,

Fletch

Thanks for you info and I am glad you posted this as the kid is about 5 years old. I am going to text your message to my friend and will help him setup both accounts.

Otherwise, the xbox is ready to go just have to drop it off to them.

Regards...Fletch

Hey there Fletchb,

Go ahead and take a look at this support article for help in
Removing an Xbox Profile on Xbox 360 to remove your account. When removing the account it will give you the option to remove Profile Only, Or to remove Profile and Items, you could remove everything at this point or just the profile.

At this point your friend can always help
Create a New account for her grandson so that they may add this to the console.

Give this a try and let us know if you have further questions.

Good day

That is a wonderful gesture on your part. Im sure the grandson will enjoy it.