<p>I have a web page where the user select a Company and with that I keep the Company name in memory though a Session but when I go to the next page the Session only last like 5 minutes?
Any reason why and how I can fix this, I did extend the Session state in the Web.config but that did not work.</p>

<p>Example: Session("CompanyName") = "Bytes Technology"</p>

<p>In my web.config I have: 
timeout="40" /></p>

<p>I move from Default.aspx to CompanyDetail.aspx with my Session("CompanyName")</p>

<p>But if I let the program idle in CompanyDetail.aspx I lose the Session State.</p>

<p>Any ideas?</p>

<p>Regards
Etienne </p>

some questions:
the timeout time is always the same? 5 minutes?
is your site running in a load-balancing server farm? with more than one front-end server?
what are you telling in your web.confing regarding sessions and sessionstate?