Stopping User Profile Synchronization Service
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 | Author: vrey
User Profile Synchronization Service - Hangs on Starting
Stop it using Get-SPServiceInstance and Stop-SPServiceInstance <guid>

But it will be stuck on stopping, so we need
  1. stsadm -o enumservices > c:\services.txt - Those gave me a list of services and showed me what the name of the service I need to stop is.
  2. stsadm -o provisionservice -action stop -servicetype "Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ProfileSynchronizationService, Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" -servicename FIMSynchronizationService