[manomina]

I gave my son my DELL laptop. Instead of me renaming my profile to his, I just created his profile as administrator and deleted mine. Now when he tries to install anything it says he might not have permission.

I only created his user account as administrator and didn't mess with tweak ui or anything to change policy settings.

If he is set as administrator, why doesn't he have permissions?

[lunarlander]

When he goes into control panel > user accounts . Does his account still show up as administrator?

There is an admin account called ADMINISTRATOR by default turned on on XP systems. See if you can login to that account and fix things.

[manomina]

I forgot about this. Yes, it was still set up as administrator. He had downloaded the new Itunes program to his computer and when he ran it, it said he didn't have the permissions to run it. I was able to install programs from my thumb drive so I told him it had to be that file he downloaded. There was another file he downloaded from it's website that gave him the same error so I have no idea, except it had something to do with the files.