Symptom
The laptop to which I connect side is on Windows 7 but my local machine is on Windows 10. I previoulsy connected from the Linux client on various distributions and the connection just was fine. The notorious mouse pointer shadow is disabled and no theme on the laptop side.
"Cause"
It seems that Windows 10 handles TCP stuff espacially its windows size.
Try
playing around with the autotuning settings. By default it is set to normal.
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=highlyrestricted
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=restricted
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal
Details at
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731258(WS.10).aspx
Be aware, however, it might have negative impact on other TCP using applications!
However, this did not easen my pain with Citrix.